Interview with Marija Scekic a.k.a. Histeria NOVA, part 2: Climber in Contemporary Dance

October 26, 2011

This is the second part of the interview with Marija Scekic. Read the first part here: On New Media and Science in Dance

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Photo above:  Little Tragedy, choreography and dance by Marija Scekic
Photo bellow: Human Error, both photos by Nina Durdevic

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Interview with Marija Scekic a.k.a. Histeria NOVA, part 1: On New Media and Science in Dance

Choreographer and dancer Marija Scekic is the founder and Artistic Director of Histeria NOVA Artistic organization. She was  professionally trained in classical ballet, contemporary dance and butoh, she studied choreography and contemporary dance at Concordia University in Montréal (Canada).

Her interest in combining movements, science and technology initially triggered this interview since we have spent many, many  hours discussing about it…

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Photo above by Sandra Vitaljic (c), Marija Scekic in Shadow
Photo bellow by Sandra Vitaljic (c), Marija Scekic in Human Error

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Pocket cinema: Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary

March 6, 2011

Maquinas & Almas (Souls & Machines) – Documentary is an accompanying film of 33 minutes length that covers the synonymous exhibition held two years ago in the National Museum “Centro de Arte Reina Sofía” in Madrid.

The exhibition and documentary cover high tech and low tech aspects, including innovators and makers such as Theo Jansen and his Strandbeests, media design by John Maeda, robot by David Hanson, or Sachiko Kodama‘s Ferrofluid, among many…

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Theo Jansen: Strandbeest (c)

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Interview with Scott deLahunta, part 2: Catching some dancing algorithms

February 10, 2011

This is the second part of the interview with Scott deLahunta. Read the first part here: Interview with Scott deLahunta, part 1: On working processes and digital realms

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Photo above: Scott deLahunta by Thomas Lenden (c)
Photo bellow: Excerpt from Emio Greco’s DVD double skin | double mind

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