[-empyre-] Ashley Ferro-Murray: Resolution for Digital Futures

[Timothy Murray]

As a choreographer and mover myself, I continue to survey the 
intricacies of my corporeal intellect - movements - that work 
through, with, in, on, inside and outside of the interactive 
performance technologies that animate my space and attention. I 
connect objects that activate the macro and microstructures of my 
composition to interact with the environment around me on a focused 
and glocal level.

Virtuality as tangible blankness. Programming repetition 
interconnected (dis)comfort. Interface. Can you feel me? Can I feel 
me? Can I feel you? From the inside out. Exploring and working 
through and with and in and on and inside and outside.

For this New Year, I hope that the dialogue between different 
technologies, both old and new, continue to develop as a flourishing 
interACTion. Technologies of the body and locomotion are, in fact, 
traditional ways to think about corporeal movement. What, then, is 
innovative about contemporary technologies that are ever present in 
today's society and today's choreographic exploration? Virtuality can 
tie the contemporary digital dance environment together as a quality, 
both physically and digitally. It is a digital virtuality, one that 
converses seamlessly with more traditional corporeal technologies 
that allows for a process-oriented interaction between dance and 
technology and a continued exploration of the everyday. The virtual 
sustains dance presence in the choreographic experience. Perhaps this 
artistic focus can inspire us to consider both the macro and 
microstructures of the communities and infinitely globalized world 
around us.

Ashley Ferro-Murray (US) is a choreographer who uses interactive 
performance technologies as a means for exploring dance and new media 
in our contemporary culture. She is currently a Performance Studies 
doctoral student in the Department of Theater, Dance and Performance 
Studies at UC Berkeley.

-- 
Renate Ferro and Tim Murray
Co-Moderators, -empyre- a soft-skinned-space
Department of Art/ Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art
Cornell University