What do you get when 70 dancers and creative coders meet for a hackathon? Chaos, yes, but also 18 compelling two-minute performances using both familiar and emerging new media tools, like full-body motion tracking, livestreamed 360-degree video, projection mapping, machine learning, virtual reality, and repurposed biometric data. This celebration of tactile performance and digital art forms the basis for DanceHackDay, an annual project hosted by Kinetech Arts, which was hosted at CounterPulse in San Francisco earlier this month.
“The hack day is really a way of bringing people from different disciplines—tech, art, dance, music—together,” Kinetech Arts founder Weidong Yang tells The Creators Project. Yang, a trained physicist and dancer who also heads virtual reality data visualization company Kineviz, says DanceHackDay is a way to facilitate creativity amidst disorder. “As a scientist, I never achieved a significant discovery in the direction that I set off in,” he says. “All my major discoveries were from the mistakes, from the things that I didn’t expect to happen.”
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Source: Vice