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See our plansCan gender be performed? This question has preoccupied theorists, spanning the gamut from psychoanalysis to postmodernism, yet it remains elusive. Sigmund Freud offered essentialist conceptions of gender identity rooted in...
It is an impossible task trying to translate a dictionary of Vietnamese slangs and idioms around gender and sexuality, whose melodic playfulness and visceral imageries operate on a vastly different...
I was a dancer before I was a DJ. And I was a medium before I was a dancer. Increasingly over the last years, and almost certainly accelerated by the...
Having developed a Third Hand, the body is considering the possibility of constructing an extra ear, positioned next to the real ear. A laser scan was done to create a...
Throughout history, dance is in conversation with contemporary culture and technology, responding to as well as defying cultural form. The city of New York is an epicenter for electronic music...
Since the Renaissance, the Western artist perceived his environment primarily in terms of the visual. His conception of space was in terms of a perspective projection upon a plane surface...
Nineteenth Century technology seems to have been designed to inspire eroticism; the steamy thrust of a locomotive, the vibrating pistons of an internal-combustion engine, not to mention the safety pin,...
“A machine has no sex. Nature, on the other hand, always has a sex.” “The human spirit…seems subjugated to the imperatives of technology to the point of believing it possible...
We no longer work in dance studios, we work in interactive environments, our labs become scientific simulation-chambers, we have more in common with NASA than with the Judson Church but...
The word that the two of us return to again and again in our work is body. There is nothing more essentially human than the body. It is sensual, tactile,...
Lately Character Generators, the video documentation company I head, has leapt into the digital world, rocking our daily routine. One receives a tremendous insight looking into the unknown as technology...
"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert" --Donna Haraway Preface: Attempting to perform Donna Haraway's Utopian social vision of the cyborg (a hybrid of a body and...
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