Today, for a few hours more, “3142,” a performance on video, is a part of the program “I’m Bored, What’s Next?” The performance was made in collaboration with Julia Edith Rigby. “I’m Bored, What’s Next?” is a virtual dance festival that presents dance videos made by independent artists. The festival is directed by Molly Huey who desired … More “3142” performance on video at “I’m Bored, What’s Next?”
Today, “3142,” a performance on video, will be part of the program Open Performance Movement Research. The performance was made in collaboration with Julia Edith Rigby, a recent MFA graduate in Art Studio from UC Davis and my friend. The idea was to continue producing artworks in spite of being self-isolated, to stay in touch … More “3142” performance on video at Open Performance Movement Research
Ksenia Fedorova wrote a book, “Tactics of Interfacing: Encoding Affect in Art and Technology,” and included my work, “Inside the Chain,” as one of the case studies in the book. The media dance performance “Inside the Chain” was made in collaboration with Denis Perevalov (programming) and Anna Vozzhennikova (design). Among some other artists contributed into … More Appearing in a book
I am presenting on Face Dance at the EASST/4S Prague 2020 conference (18-21 August). The presentation is pre-recorded. Non-presenters can join the conference any moment for $30/60 (https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/registration/) and get access to about 1500 presentations during 60 days. The conference is the biggest one in STS (Science and Technology Studies).
BEING IMPERFECT/INCOMPLETE The pre-release single of the South Korean girl group BLACKPINK «How You Like That» was premiered on YouTube on June 26. It accumulated more than 1/3 billion views, 13 million likes, and more than 2 million comments in less than a month. Of course, the clip is perfect. It is all about perfection, … More Summer 2020 Note #2
DANCE AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY There is a great master thesis with the title «Dance and the Use of Technology» launched into the world by Beth Ann Capristo in 2012. It is available online. Capristo skillfully overviewed possible intersections of dance and technology writing on dance influence on film and television, dance with technology … More Summer 2020 Note #1
I am virtually participating at the 15th International Conference on the Arts in Society in Galway, Ireland. My presentation is uploaded on YouTube and I will be happy to receive any comments/feedback. Title: Minor Dance Presenter: Ekaterina Zharinova, AI / TA / GSR, Theatre and Dance, Cinema and Digital Media Departments, University of California, Davis … More Virtual Participation at the 15th International Conference on the Arts in Society in Galway, Ireland
I am participating in the local multidisciplinary event. It is comparatively new, it happened twice in the past. For this project, Pamela Trokanski invites representatives from different disciplines to co-create dance performances. This year, eight performance pieces were created from eight themes chosen by the community. I am performing under the theme “Survival” together with two … More Davis Dance Project 2020
I was teaching a dance course in the Fall Quarter 2019, “Introduction to Contemporary Dance,” at the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance. As one of the course projects, we made a response to the call from the Pina Bausch Foundation. The students watched the video-tutorial, and the original “seasons march,” were proposed to learn movement at … More “The NELKEN-Line” by Pina Bausch at UC Davis
We will hold an informal showing of what we have done so far with my assistant, Monique Rodriguez, an undergraduate student in Cinema & Digital Media. The project was done under supervision of Michael Neff, professor of Computer Science and Cinema & Digital Media, and director of the Motion Lab. It is an experiment devoted to … More Mocap Dance Experiment Showing 11/25/19
