<div dir="ltr">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>A question. Is there a general database or site where empyre members locate their bios and projects? If so, please do let me know. There are so many wonderful references people are sharing and if project-specific needs arise, a database or site with information like this would make it much easier to contact potential collaborators.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Laini Burton</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 February 2016 at 09:15, Hellen Sky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellen@hellensky.com" target="_blank">hellen@hellensky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>best to all empyrees</div><div><br></div><div>for a monkey year </div><div><br></div><div>this one now we are just in </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>i have appeared and peered into this list for years </div><div><br></div><div>and as other dead lines loom excuse the the repurposing of this about you ...... in less than 2400 characters </div><div><br></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hellen Sky is
a digital choreographer, performer, writer, researcher, visual artist,
recognized internationally as a leader in the digital performance field. She is
valued for her research and reflection on dance, embodiment and human computer
interaction. Her work unearths the paradigms investigating choreographic forms that
allow dancers agency to<span> </span>shape sonic and
visual<span> </span>elements as an expansion of
artistic expression. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Placing equal
value on the movement between all aspects of the work - installation or
performance, sound, light, objects, body, texts, screen, textures; the
potential of the site, the potential of a gesture, her projects are complex and
multi-layered and achieved over a number years and advanced through modular
collaborations. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Hellen Sky
& Collaborators' work to date has built on computer interactivity and
motion-sensing<span> </span>technology in tandem with
the ‘cellular’ perceptual choreographic practices of Deborah Hay;
embodiment<span> </span>and sensibilities<span> </span>become thus heightened through connectivity
and allow to<span> </span>bring<span> </span>performers together<span> </span>globally through the conduit of screens, real
time vision-mixing, pre-recorded and live camera feeds and motion sensing
technologies, destabilizing concepts of a fixed stage, performer and avatar as
different aspects of self<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">A few
projects: <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">The LIGHTROOM
new media movement opera - a glass built ‘theatre’ with complex layerings of
images choreographed through the spatial design and live environment: an ode to
the end of the 20th century.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Darker Edge
Of Night – ( with Dr Garth Paine systems design electro acoustic composer) a suite of wearable wireless bio sensors transmit real time data
sets, interpolations of gestures, a blink of an eye, muscle contractions, a
finger rotation, sound patches and software analysis interpolates biodata sets
as real time orchestrations and unprecedented responsibility for the performer
as sound and movement the consequence of simultaneous awareness, a tiny gesture
can have a huge affect, voice can become the wind. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">Publication include<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">"Sensing
the potential of Difference: a choreography of interconnectivity – a global
dance", in <i>Identity Performance and
Technology – practices of empowerment, agency and technicity, ed. Susan
Broadhurst, </i>Palgrave Macmillan, 2012<span>
</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">“Sky points
us to a global choreography and the multiple sensing of our digitally engaged
world – her 'choreography of interconnectivity’ includes our collective
cellular breathing and listening where edges smudge.. her perceptual agency is<span> </span>created through<span> </span>the listening sensing self, and her
connection between self-knowledge and an ethical relationship with the world” -
Thecla Schiphorst, Foreword to <i>Identity,
Performance and Technology- Practices of empowerment, Embodiment and<span> </span>Technicity</i>, 2012<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>best wishes </div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hellen Sky <br>digital choreographer, performer, director/teacher/writer/researcher <br><br>Hellen Sky & Collaborators<br>E- <a href="mailto:hellen@hellensky.com" target="_blank">hellen@hellensky.com</a><br>Mob +614 03 218 673 <br>Skype - hellenskype1<br>U.tube - hellenskyable<br><a href="http://www.hellensky.com" target="_blank">www.hellensky.com</a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br></div></span></div><br><br>
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