Four University of Colorado at Boulder professors who teach dance, theater, music and computer science will stage two unique, collaborative performances that blend art and technology.
The performances will take place at 5 p.m. on Jan. 18 in the Atlas Building聮s Black Box Theatre at CU-Boulder and will be free and open to the public.
Contributors include computer science Professor Elizabeth Bradley, associate theater and dance Professor David Capps, assistant theater and dance Professor Michelle Ellsworth and associate music Professor Michael Theodore.
A performance by Bradley and Capps called 聯Con/cantation: Chaotic Variations聰 will feature a live dancer and three computer-animated avatars.
聯Con/cantation is a dialogue between dancer and computer, choreographer and chaos, mathematics and art,聰 Bradley said. 聯It is an unfurling of the possibilities of order, kinetic logic, cause and effect and a dialectic between tradition and innovation.聰
In a second performance called 聯The Objectification of Things, Part IV,聰 Theodore and Ellsworth will use mirrors, mini sound stages, green screens, stunt wires, video mixing and other technologies to create a show that is 聯part performance art, part ritual and part techno extravaganza,聰 she said.
聯Its purpose is to illuminate the importance and impact that mere objects have in our lives and to give something back to them,聰 Bradley said. 聯Too often things are dismissed as soulless or inanimate. To these familiar charges, Theodore and Ellsworth remind us that no person or animal has the reliability and predictability of most objects.聰
The Alliance for Teaching, Learning and Society, or ATLAS, is a campuswide institute that integrates information technology with multidisciplinary curricular, research and outreach programs. It is located about one block north of the Euclid parking ramp on the CU-Boulder campus. For directions, go to /.