Dance, Space and Subjectivity

Shared Visual Space: Dance Film in Performance

In NightDriving, a semi-transparent projection scrim filling the width and height of the stage brings real and virtual dancers into the same field of view. The resulting shared visual space contains two kinds of representation: a “here and now” embodiment of the dance through the live performers, and projected dance film imagery of virtual figures in counterpoint to the live dancers. This share...

Dance Dance Convolution

Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) is a popular rhythmbased video game. Players perform steps on a dance platform in synchronization with music as directed by on-screen step charts. While many step charts are available in standardized packs, users may grow tired of existing charts, or wish to dance to a song for which no chart exists. We introduce the task of learning to choreograph. Given a raw audi...

Choreographing Space: The Enhancement of Architecture Through Dance

Dance Dance Education and Rites of Passage

The experience of a successful adolescent learner will be described from the student’s perspective about learning the video game Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) through selected passages from a phenomenological interview. The question driving this investigation is, “Why did she sustain engagement in learning?” The importance of this question came out of the need for background on how to create an ...

Subjectivity and information ethics

1 In " A brief history of information ethics " , Thomas Froehlich (2004) quickly surveys under several broad categories some of the many issues that constitute information ethics: under and violence in the press; and under intercultural information ethics: digital divide, and the ethical role of the Internet for social, political, cultural and economic development. Many of the debates in inform...