LINS DERRY
virtual residency

" I have long reckoned with the tension between artistic and procedural processes, even before I learned how to code. For example, as a solo artist, I experimented tirelessly with systematic routines until peak performance was clock-work; my warmups were akin to algorithms. And more recently, through an iterative process of discovering how machine vision "sees" and Artificial Intelligence (AI) "understands" choreographed movement, I've developed a method for procedurally choreographing movement vocabularies that fit into both binary and body worlds. This came about when designing a choreographic interface requiring gestures for zoom in/out, scroll up/down, select, span, switch hands, and refresh. Another example is how I convert datasets into scores that can be both danced and visualized as graphs. Thus my choreographic research often extends beyond the studio. During the residency, I plan to return to the Marley to kinesthetically ask: "Given our physical indivisibility from our data-driven world, how can embodied practices like dance help us to navigate complex information and the issues that it produces?"

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