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This is the second part of the interview with Johannes Birringer. Read the first part here: Interview with Johannes Birringer, part 1 – New media, interactivity and performative arts

Photo above: Johannes Birringer by Glenio Campregher (c), 2008
Photo bellow:  scene from Ukiyo by DAP-Lab (c)
Taken from Dance-Tech

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During November and December the Centre for Drama Art aka cdu based in Zagreb organized a series of lectures and a workshop within the programme titled Cognitive of the Performative. The first guest in the series was Johannes Birringer who introduced his latest production Ukiyo on lecture titled Open Score: Performance Technology  that took place in net club Mama.

Johaness Birringer is an performance, video and new media choreographer. He is considered among experts as one the pioneers of media art in performative context. Birringer is the founder of the theatre company AlienNation Co., new media laboratory Interaktionslabor, and the wearable technology project DAP-Lab.

I would need an extra blog post just to name and list all of his projects, books, universities and departments  he was involved with during his career. Thus, I decided to make this interview as a full scan of his work and his current thoughts on what shall we do with interactivity in performing arts.

Johannes Biringer, Photo: Glenio Campregher (c), 2008

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DanceWriter (2007) is an interesting online tool that converts text into simple dance moves. Meaning, you can create your own choreography by typing something – a message or by random clickin’ at the keyboard…

DanceWriter

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Documentary Google Baby (2009) by film maker Zippi Brand Frank deals with birth outsourcing among three countries: Israel, USA and India. It involves business, technology (computers and human bodies) and a bunch of paradoxes.

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I really wouldn’t be a good blogger, if I wouldn’t blog about documentary Book of Miri by Katrine Philp, a film that I saw in the competitive programme of ZagrebDox Festival last month.

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Fancy Homes is a web project by artists Nikolina Ivezic and Nenad Laktasic where they’re exploring how far can we go when treating pets and making from them also a sort of a branded product perfectly suitable for branded owner in his/hers branded clothes while having a significant public (branded, too) appearance…

Ivezic and Laktasic created architecture for animals by using the same patterns and construction techniques as if they would built a house for humans with elements of camp art.

Doggy House by Nikolina Ivezic & Nenad Laktasic (c)

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