Human, Next: Phase Two ● Benjamin Rosenthal y James Moreno

Descripción:
Human, Next: Phase One--a video adaptation of a section of a live collaborative dance/video/animation work conceived of by Choreographer James Moreno and Artist Benjamin Rosenthal--explores the convergences and differences between virtual and physical bodies, offering new perspectives on our 21st- Century Hybrid condition.
The systematized condition of both the virtual and physical bodies is further emphasized by the sound score, composed for the piece by Benjamin Rosenthal. Primarily extracted from existing computer "system" sounds, the audio is chopped, stretched, manipulated and reoriented, making the audio an actor, or a body, in its own right Using rhythmic and temporal structures that, at times, collapse in exhaustion, the sound mimics the visceral condition of the dancers as they compete in an arena that tests their boundaries and limits.
Duración: 11:00 min.
Año de producción: 2015
País: Estados Unidos
Benjamin Rosenthal:
(b. 1984, New York, NY) holds an MFA in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis and a BFA in Art (Electronic Time-Based Media) from Carnegie Mellon University. His work has been exhibited internationally in such venues as the Stuttgarter Filmwinter (Stuttgart, Germany), FILE Electronic Language International Festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Vanity Projects (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina (Novi Sad, Serbia), and online via the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (Is.CaM), among others. Pulling from a variety of fields in the humanities and sciences, he questions the authenticity of our physical experience in an age where the boundaries between reality and the virtual become indistinguishable.
Rosenthal is Assistant Professor of Expanded Media, in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Kansas where he teaches Video Art, Performance Art, and interdisciplinary practices.
James Moreno:
James Moreno is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Kansas where he teaches critical dance studies, modern dance technique, choreography, and dance and technology. Moreno holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, is a Fulbright Scholar, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). In 2011/12 he was Visiting Professor of Dance at the University of Panamá in Panamá City, Panamá and Visiting Guest Artist at the National Dance of Panamá. His research, which he has presented nationally and internationally, investigates stagings of race, nation, and gender in mid-century US modern dance with a focus on José Limón. Moreno is published in Dance Chronicle: Studies in Dance and the Related Arts and Conversations Across the Field of Dance Studies. His current choreographic project human, next, a collaboration with video artist Benjamin Rosenthal, made its New York City premiere in March 2014, with a video adaptation of the dance presented in film festivals in Athens, Greece, Weimar, Germany, Holon, Israel, and New York City.