METABODY

Reversing Cybernetics – Queering Control: Media, Embodiment and the Politics of Indeterminacy Symposium

Part of the International Metabody Forum, 2015

May 7-9, 2015, Z-Lab hosted a series of workshops, performances, presentations, and demonstrations with technologists, choreographers, and intermedia artists in response to the METABODY project which is focused on Human-Machine Interactions Through Embodied Sensor Technology. METABODY is a European project, Forum and Institute coordinated by Jaime del Val the non-profit organization Reverso, that since 2013 questions the homogenisation of expressions induced by current information and control technologies, which place unprecedented threats to plurality and to fundamental rights and freedoms by reducing our actions to predictable behaviors, and proposes to reinvent them highlighting the role and diversity of embodied expression through a new concept of interactive architecture that transforms in all its physical and digital aspects - constituting dynamic, participatory and performative emergent environments.

Panelists and workshop leaders included:

Jaime del Val (Metabody Coordinator)

Sheldon Smith (Mills College, Dance/Technology Artist)

Teoma Naccarato (Intermedia Artist and Choreographer)

Adrian Freed (CNMAT, Center for New Music and Audio Technologies)

Ian Heisters (Intermedia Artist)

Robert Wechsler (Palindrome, Metabody Partner)

Neil Marcus (Disability Culture – Arts Activist)