Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Kinetech Arts Lab 06/17/2014

Kinetech Arts weekly open lab, every Tuesday at KUNST-STOFF Arts, 1 Grove Street SF CA.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014 lab notes

Intense rehearsals for upcoming show at ODC Theater on July 19-20, mostly practicing the Time Bubble sequence. 

Flier for upcoming ODC show, part of the SPF7 Festival




Attendees
Kinetech: Weidong Yang, Daiane Lopes Da Silva, Becky Robinson-Leviton, Colin Epstein, Astara Barbieri, Irene Hsiao, Katherine Disenhof, Priscilla Park, Qinmin Liu, Raymond Larrett, Robin Edgar.
Guest researchers: Angela Gomez, others. 

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Kinetech Arts Lab 06/10/2014

Kinetech Arts weekly open lab, every Tuesday at KUNST-STOFF Arts, 1 Grove Street SF CA.

06/10/2014 lab notes

6:00-7:30 - Dancers rehearsed "Time Bubble" interactive performance piece.




7:30-11:00 - Ian, Kayvon and Ash of Hack Reactor demonstrate Synesthesia 2.0, a cloud-based interactive performance app that translates motion into sound and light. Also, Daniel Konhauser demonstrated his wearable video projection device.

Daiane Lopes Da Silva with Synesthesia 2.0

Attendees
Kinetech: Weidong Yang, Daiane Lopes Da Silva, Becky Robinson-Leviton, Colin Epstein, Daniel Konhauser, Irene Hsiao, Katherine Disenhof, Priscilla Park, Qinmin Liu, Raymond Larrett, Robert Edgar, Robin Edgar
From Hack Reactor: Ian, Kayvon, Ash
Guest researchers: Angela Gomez, Melissa Kaufman-Gomez, Louis Lights, Travis

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Kinetech Arts Lab 06/03/2014

Kinetech Arts weekly open lab, every Tuesday at KUNST-STOFF Arts, 1 Grove Street SF CA.

06/03/2014 lab

6:00-7:30 - Dancers rehearsed with Weidong Yang's "Time Bubble" interactive performance piece.
7:30-11:00 - David Glowacki (http://glow-wacky.com) conducted a demo of his ‘danceroom Spectroscopy' performance piece.


David Glowaki



Thursday, August 22, 2013


Kinetech presents 4SEE September 6 & 7 at 8 pm

Kunst-Stoff Arts, upstairs

4SEE explores the concept and practice of surveillance in contemporary society. The performance uses technologies such as cell phones and social networks, which have become an indispensible part of daily life, yet which track and record every move we make.

Does the cycle of surveillance oppress or emancipate? Do acts of surveillance separate the watcher from the watched, or are they co-conspirators in the performance of modern life?

Come to watch, be watched, and play along...

Kinetech is a collective of artists and scientists striving to challenge possibility through collaborative creativity.

Choreography by Daiane Lopes da Silva in collaboration with dancers.

Performers: Ali Weeks, ArVejon A. Jones, Irene Hsiao, Karla Quintero, Katherine Disenhof, Keon Saghari, Ong Pholchai.

Tech Developers: Cere Davis, Jesse Zbikowski, Max Carlson, and Weidong Yang

Visual Artist: Raymond Larrett

Photography and Film: Mark McBeth

Directed by Weidong Yang

4SEE will be presented in conjunction with Daiane Lopes da Silva’s new solo work, IN THE NIGHT, developed in residence at Kunst-Stoff Arts.

Special thanks to open source community, from which most technology used in the performance is built upon.

4SEE
September 6 and 7
8pm
Tickets $15 at the door

1 Grove Street at Market, San Francisco, CA

http://goo.gl/maps/Js0c6 .


Wednesday, June 5, 2013

The Circus Freaks of Kinetech


  Kinetech is at is again! Yesterday evening the artists of Kinetech gathered to explore the potential of a streak camera. This camera takes shots in one thin angle, creating the affect that one is floating across the screen, almost like a moving scroll. We were transformed into giants, genies, centaurs and octopi, as we explored how this camera altered our body proportions and movement in odd and unexpected ways.  Often we were surprised as to how and why the camera would transform us. We tried to "crack the code" so that we can create interesting and expected choreography with the screen in future sessions.

  We are immensely grateful to everyone who came out to see our first open lab. Thank you for your continued support. Plans are in the works for future open labs, showings and experiments. Kinetech is here to stay!

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Coming Soon: Open Lab- Sensory Awakening



 Exciting news! Kinetech is hard at work preparing for our open lab on May 20th and 21st. This lab- Sensory Awakening will be a chance for you to see and viscerally experience some of our collaborative movement and technology pieces.

  Kinetech has developed three works which reveal some of our questions, explorations and revelations in relation to this technology. We are undergoing an exploratory process as we learn how  best to utilize and move with (or against) our innovations. We invite you to watch, move with us and share your ideas and insights so that we can build upon our creations. We hope that the lab will awaken your senses to new emotional and sensory potentials of technology when fused with the moving body. Warning! You may already be involved in this lab in surprising and unusual ways! Come to the open lab to discover how!

 Event Details
Monday-Tuesday, May 20 & 21, 8:30PM
KUNST-STOFF arts Underground, basement studio

Kinetech Open Lab: Sensory Awakening, directed by Weidong Yang.

Kinetech is an art, dance, science and technology collective of inspired and talented humans sharing our mutual passion for movement and technology.

Sensory Awakening is a collection of movement innovations that explore the extension of human sense through digital media. With our explorations, we study how this newly acquired sensation affects our sense of reality, changes perception of self, and influences relationships with other human beings.

Collaborators: Sachin Deshpande, Marc Fawzi, Sydnor Hain-Fawzi, Florian Hoenig, Irene Hsiao Mark McBeth, Natalie Marsh, Nitipat Pholchai, Karla Quintero, Daiane Lopes da Silva,  Ali Weeks, Weidong Yang

 RSVP and  find out more information about the open lab here- https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/158207947688400/