Research
Sentient Lanterns
What do we mean by togetherness? How can we condition enacted experience for coordination to emerge? How can we collectivize group dynamics instead of reducing to individual agents, without returning to dualistic vocabularies e.g. self, body, or without discretizing messy fields of coordination into skin-bound bodies with brains/ How do non-human matter, objects, tools, and organisms participate in ensemble with humans? Without? How can we leverage skills learned in lived experience?
Concept
The Lanterns system apparatus is built as a sandbox for playful and collective engagement with these questions. As we swing, twirl, and toss the pendants, their movement is augmented by responsive and spatialized sound and reactive lighting.
Documentation
Team
Garrett Laroy Johnson: Research Assistant Ph.D | Synthesis
Britta Joy Peterson: Choreography and Performance
Evan Anderson: Lighting Design
Pamela East: Camera Work
Julian Stein: Camera Work
Additional Information
performed at Movement and Computing (MOCO) 2017 // Goldsmiths University London