Time Axis

This is a utility for graphing numbers over time. The slider changes the scale.

Time Bandit

Uptown, Otis Houston Jr bends time by performing at extremely low frequency over long durations. An auto-regressive low-pass filter shows his presence in the same low bands inhabited by landscape features such as trees, bridges and roadsigns. Otis' still acts retain a high kinetic energy in the frame of the passing viewer due to their great velocity and his close proximity to the road. As his text indicates, the scattering interactions are complex and worth serious study.

Capital also works as a time machine in multiple ways. First is through propagating past debts into the future through interest and the setting of present prices through speculation and secret knowledge. True believers say the market is the most intelligent predictor of the future. Some think otherwise.Downtown, on Wall St. Otis trys to communicate to foot traffickers. Here the time scale and landscape require different tactics: the voice and higher frequency gestures are used since duration is blocked by the state. Otis has a good understanding of capital since he spends time with bankers moving weight in the financial district. They are big and sloppy he tells me. Though they push a lot around they inevitably leave a mess for others to clean up. Perhaps naïve art is not so naïve.

Timex

Schizophrenic time travel uses image as a tool. Chris Marker's 1962 French sci-fi classic La jetée elaborates this. The film, consisting almost entirely of still photos, depicts a post-nuclear future in which the protagonist is subject to experiments to displace him in time. Whether the travel is real or imagined remains ambiguous. The goal of his trip is to avert nuclear war and recapture lost love. This is the inspiration of Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys.

Rodowick analyzes this film and other sci-fi cinema using Deleuzian film theory in Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine. Roy Brand's first year studies in Philosophy and Film is using this text. As the year progresses we might find them to be a useful resource in developing these ideas. Can we think of any other texts or films which play with these concepts?

@Book{Rodowick1997,
author = {Rodowick, David Norman},
title = {Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine},
publisher = {MIT},
year = {2004},
address = {Cambridge},
isbn = {0822319705}
}

Martian Time-Slip

"Mrs Miltch is utilizing music as a method of reaching the autustic children at B-G...the dance,in particular."

"There is a new theory about autism," Dr Glaub said. "From Bergholzlei, in Switzerland... It assumes a derangement in the sense of time in the autistic individual, so that he environment around him is so accelerated that he cannot cope with it, in fact, he is unable to percieve it properly, precisely as we would be if we faced a speeded-up television program, so that objects whizzed by so fast as to be invisible, and sound was a gobbledegook--you know? Just extremely high pitched mishmash. Now this new theory would place the autistic child in a closed chamber, where he faced a screen on which filmed sequences were projected slowed down--so you see? Both sound and video slowed, at last so slow that you and I would not be able to perceive motion or comprehend the sounds as human speech."

A genuinely good looking boy... and such terrific coordination. The way he sprinted about, on the tips of his toes, as if dancing to some unheard music, some tune from inside his own mind whose rhythms kept him enthralled. We are so pedestrian compared to him Steiner thought. Leaden. We creep along like snails, while he dances and leaps, as if gravity does not have the same influence on him as it does on us. Could he be made from some new and different kind of atom?

"Could the schizophrenic be running so fast, compared to us, in time, that he's actually in what to us is the future? Would that account for his precognition?"

@Book{Slip,
author = {Dick, Philip K.},
title = {Martian Time-Slip},
publisher = {Ballatine},
year = {1964},
isbn = {0679761675}
}

Motility

Trying out mobile bloging from ipod touch. This is Alexa at the joyce. Fun fact.

Our Networked Technobody

Okay players, you are now inside the blogosphere and that is dope to me. This is a powerful and expressive component of your sprouting technobody. Might I suggest that you take a tour of the dance blogosphere and see what it has to offer.

My flavorite dance-o-blog is quodlibet by Matthew Gough. Described as "contrapuntal texts on dance & performance technologies (dance-tech) etc" quodlibet is beautifully written, thoughtful, visually rich and updated often. Matt Gough is our friend and our dance partner. I have guest written on quodlibet and hopefully we can have Matt over here for a play date.

Another place to get down with some hot dance-o-blog action is great dance with Anna Brady Nuse's move the frame and Doug Fox's kinetic interface. Anna's blog addresses dance on screen while Doug investigates the culture of science and technology with a focus on the body and movement. Anna is a choreographer, filmmaker and dance film curator. Doug is an OG dance blogger, dance enthusiast and spirited advocate of dance online.

The winger is also a prime piece of web real estate run by Kristin Sloan and a crew of co-contributors. Kristin started the winger while she was a member of NYCB. She has since stopped dancing and is now the company's director of new media. I also write for the winger. You can see adds for some of my writing on the southbound side of the FDR near 125th st. Brian Gibbs, founder of tag-sf, is also a frequent contibutor to the site. He is really generous in sharing his work online, posting great dance videos and photography.

Another place of interest is dance-tech.net aka deep space sector 9. This is a social network run on the ning platform. Social networks are incredibly sticky traps which seduce with a poly-panoptic gaze and one should be careful while navigating them. The network admin is Marlon Barrios. His contempt for physics and calculus makes him an exciting fiend to bump heads with.

Last but not least is Tonya Plank's swanlakesambagirl. Tonya is a prolific writer and reviewer on her blog and for the huffington post. Tonya writes about live dance performance, dance on television aswell as arts, politics and culture. Tonya did amazing first hand coverage of the Sean Bell murder trial. Tonya is also a lawyer and a novelist and a competitive latin dancer.

So check out this ever growing online dance world. Greatdance and the winger have fairly exhaustive blogrolls from which you can find the 100 some odd dance blogs on the internet. Hopefully we can have a few nyc dance bloggers do a panel at a dance meeting sometime this year. Lets encourage Rose Anne Thom to invite some of these folks to talk to our students about this emerging dance space.

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