The Nature of Dance
Using two webcams, a computer, speakers, Serge modular system, Max/MSP, Ableton Live, Teenage Engineering OP-Z and Op1, found sound, music stems composed by Pu22l3 and Adele Etheridge Woodson, and a floor consisting of plywood tiles with embedded pressure sensors, ANIMA is an interactive installation that recognizes and interprets dance movement, responding with its own musical compositions of bird songs and other sonic remnants of a natural world that is gradually disappearing.
ANIMA explores what the nature of dance reveals about our nature as humans adapting to a profoundly altered existence. If we cannot go back to what we were or the world we had, can the direction in which we move forward lead us closer to our original selves?
The YBCA10 Fellowship
I was invited to join a fellowship of 10 artists from various fields (including theater, architecture, farming, poetry, tech, photography, film) to work in close collaboration with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Named “the YBCA 10,” the purpose of the program was to design and develop creative prototypes that center the health and well-being of communities through a focus on racial equity, climate justice, and their intersections. These projects were shared as works-in-progress both on-site at YBCA and in the community as a Public Square