Yen Tzu Chang – 張晏慈

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“I use old technology because it’s so fast to realise my idea, and realise the artwork.” (New technology is also exciting and requires me to project manage multiple teams of people).

Yen Tzu Chang 張晏慈

Yen Tzu Chang 張晏慈 is a new media artist/new media art director/sound artist based in Taiwan, she has delivered sound art performances/exhibitions and exhibited her works in many international conferences and festivals, including Ars Electronica Festival, roBOt 08 Festival, Linux Audio Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Digital Design Weekend in London, Most Wanted: Music in Berlin, etc.

we discuss:

  • recent tour to Australia (Perth)
  • why do dancing
  • the human body accomodating to the technology
  • decision making in various collaborative roles
  • interactive technology in live performance
  • robotics
  • alternatives to projection
  • working with technicians
  • making a show across multiple labs
  • media art
  • modern dance
  • costumes for dancers in multimedia performance
  • projects with nature
  • character in performance

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Jeff Hsieh – 謝杰樺

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“you have to know yourself really well (because everything else is changing faster than it ever has)”

Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺)

Jeff Hsieh (謝杰樺) is the current artistic director of Anarchy Dance Theatre. His works feature a strong element of interactive dance performance and leverage technology to expand the field of choreography. We cover;

  • how technology has changed our lives
  • the body
  • machine interventions
  • new physical experience
  • the eternal straight line
  • surgery at a distance
  • digital worlds
  • AI in art
  • new media arts / old media arts
  • skills used to have a long tail of value
  • knowing what you’re doing
  • mid-journey

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Lee Ming-Chieh – 李明潔

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“No matter which mediums I use, if I can keep finding something I feel curious about then I will keep going for choreography.”

Lee Ming-Chieh

Ming-chieh Lee is an independent choreographer born in 1989 in Taiwan often focusing on the dynamic of body, object and other things as the main mediums for her research related to memory and time, and further discussed the flowing performativity shaped between body and specific space. We cover;

  • Dancing in public spaces
  • Inaccuracies becoming a new style for choreography
  • Fruitful limitations
  • Making experiments in many different fields
  • The specificity of environment
  • Using choreography to explore your body
  • Study at TNUA
  • Collaborating with drama and musical directors
  • Working across mediums
  • Mixed reality choreography
  • How to decide what is worth watching
  • Choreographing time
  • The work referenced at 49:20

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