Choreographer Harrison Hall and Media Artist Sam Mcgilp present a workshop that shares some of the choreographic processes used in creating their live performance x digital hybrid experiences.

Over the afternoon they will work with participants in sharing their unique methods and approaches to motion capture and digital embodiment.

Participants will have the opportunity to play with motion capture sensors, viewing real-time feedback of their augmented corporeality, experiencing movement led exercises and experiments that have come out of the last three years of the artists' practices working with technology.

When
Saturday 13 May 2023
2pm – 6pm

Cost
Full $40
Blaktix $30

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Who is it for?
This workshop is specifically designed for people with a developed movement or dance practice, who wish to explore ways to extend their experience into digital space and forms.

What to bring?
Casual/Comfortable clothing
Something to write on/with

Access
A range of facilities support people with a wide range of access needs to visit WXYZ Studios. For more information, please visit our website.

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About the Artists
Harrison Hall’s work situates contemporary performance and dance in experiential art environments. His recent works traverse states of flux within digital and live worlds, working to increase the embodied experience in mixed digital and live performance contexts.

In 2021 Harrison completed a Solitude1 Residency from the Tanja Liedtke foundation and Chunky Move, within that context he presented BONANZA! with Dr. Sam Mcgilp, a PerformancexDialogue media artwork that included conversations with NAXS Future (Taiwanese audiovisual art collective) and Lu Yang (Chinese digital artist). This work was a Green Room Award winner and selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival.

These projects have since led to Harrison collaborating on Lu Yang’s Doku, first at ACMI and then most recently at the Sydney Opera House as well as leading Body Crysis, alongside NAXS Future, presented at the Substation in 2022. He was an invited artist at the Taipei Performing Art Centre's ADAM artist Lab and is a recipient of the Chloe Munro AO Fellowship. Harrison is also a founder of experimental digital arts studio PSEUDO.

Dr Sam Mcgilp is a media artist working in contemporary performance contexts based on Wurundjeri country in Naarm. He creates collaborative modes of making with performers through playful and experimental interactions with media that expand the potential dramaturgies of live performance and interrogate the place of the body in our increasingly digital experience. Together with digital choreographer Harrison Hall he has created a body of work at the intersection of Dance and contemporary digital practice through films (Bonanza! - Chunky Move - MIFF 2021, The Venusian Slip - 2019), performance works (Running Machine - Arts House - 2022), hybrid digital/live works (Body Crysis – The Substation – 2022), as well as contributions to discourse (Taipei Performing Arts Centre's Adam Lab – 2021, ANAT Multiplicity Conference - 2022). His projects have been awarded grants from the Australia Council, Creative Victoria, City of Melbourne and Besen Family Foundation. He has worked extensively in collaborative, intercultural contexts including with NAXS Future (Taiwan), Lu Yang (China), Theatre Nottle (South Korea), Acchi Kocchi
(Japan) and Kazuhiko Hiwa and Makoto Uemura (Japan). As well as with celebrated contemporary Australian artists such as Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, All the Queens Men and Yuiko Masukawa.

In 2021 he completed his PhD at RMIT University working with Chamber Made investigating Digital Iterations, distinct digital artworks that share an artistic inquiry with live performance works. This research was awarded the Vice Chancellor's PhD Scholarship, and the Emerging Scholar Award at the Arts in Society Conference (Vancouver).

Contact the host of HOTBED workshop: NoCap MoCap w/ Harrison Hall & Sam Mcgilp