A Live Diagram of the Human
Condition (an Imaginary Science experiment)
by The League of Imaginary Scientists
documentation of Live Diagram, an Imaginary Science experiment
interactive performance
and installation, Milkbar 2007 Live Film Festival
an
interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action
while figuring the digestion of the world, drawn with interactive media,
movement, and new sound
movement...blindsight choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo
interactive
audio...George Cremaschi
responsive
environment...the League of Imaginary Scientists
Choreographer/dancer paige
starling sorvillo moves
within a drawn, responsive environment constructed live by The League of
Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George Cremaschi. Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling
sorvillo brings her lexicon of animated gestures and expressions to
contemporary Butoh. Overlaid with scientific data, the live interaction
relays the political and physical anatomy of consumption.
ÒLive DiagramÓ is an
interactive performance examining the connection between thought and action
while figuring the digestion of the world. The
piece is a collaboration between the League of Imaginary Scientists and blindsight and explores layered themes
economic and biological consumption. Choreographer/dancer paige starling sorvillo moves within a drawn, responsive
environment constructed live by The League of Imaginary Scientists and sound artist George
Cremaschi.
Eating words and swallowing clouds, starling sorvillo brings her lexicon
of animated gestures and expressions to contemporary Butoh. Overlaid with
scientific data, the live interaction relays the political and physical anatomy
of consumption.
The League of Imaginary Scientists concocts interdisciplinary research projects in collaboration with scientists, technologists, and artists engaged in many media. Live Diagram contributing imaginary scientists are Doctors Aojiru, Chao Hwachung, and L. Hernandez Gomez. Live Diagram collaborators are paige starling sorvillo, a 2007 CHIME awardee and artistic director of the performance collaborative blindsight, and versatile musician/composer George Cremaschi.
Performance
at MilkBar 2007 Interanational Live Film Festival
www.imaginaryscience.org | www.blindsightperformance.org | www.paigesorvillo.com