The VICKi Project

Mission

TO INVITE (sub)culturally diverse practices into dance scholarship

TO ENABLE agency to co-author the body-mind- ecology

TO BRIDGE divergent dance perspectives

VICKi’s Interactive Technique 2.0 is a highly experimental subject-centered approach to creating and discovering interactive performance techniques.

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Implications

1. INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUE: real-time interaction with mediated environments.

2. SUSTAINABILITY: dancers (formal and informal) can afford class (see future)

3. DIVERSITY: 2.0-style bottom-up access to and authorship of class content

The dance field and what it can give the community will be stronger if it trickles up, enabling diverse appeal and thus economic sustainability.

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About

VICKi combines interactive media with real-time game design(+)play in a holistic education environment to:

1. broaden dance in order to:
2. increase participation in dance in order to:
3. increase sustainability of dance / society

The heart of IP-t2.0 is to share the heart of dance [mind-body wellness] with a broader community. Mind-body wellness is fundamental to sustainable living.

compilation of passages from Gamer Theory

for information on VICKi’s forerunner, including video and screenshot, visit http://choreobot8.wordpress.com

“Play does not inspire the game; the game animates play.” Wark [091]
~ VICKi’s IP•t2.0 grants students the space to shape their own games, to take agency in animating their creative artistic play ~

i'm returning from a year off of training after intensively questioning my foundation, the foundation of dance and every other thing in the world with it.

I am interested in social change. I immerse myself in local art as a reminder of what theory can undo if it gets lost inside itself. I am interested in the story of the guy next door, how ordinary stories intersect to penetrate local ideological power structures one person at a time. one relationship at a time. there is so much in there.

PhD - Arizona State University, Media Arts & Sciences as of 2014

MFA - The Ohio State University, Dance & Technology

BFA - Ohio University, Dance Performance & Choreography (aesthetic technologies lab emphasis)

lectures and demos include:

Union Arts, BoMA, The Fuse Factory, Middlebury College, Popular Culture Conference, The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Sarah Lawrence College, The Aesthetic Technologies Lab, DeFrag Festival, and more...