26 Nov 2013 – 26 Sep 2014
Frankfurt/Main & Berlin, Germany
The CCL offers unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration for digital media ‘code savvy’ artists who have an interest in translating aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and applying choreographic thinking to their own practice. They are working with patterns in movement scores and structures through finding, generating and applying them with results ranging from prototypes for artworks to new plug-ins for working with dance related datasets. CCLs also seek to support a sustainable collaborative practice among its participants encouraging ongoing exchange in a growing artistic research community.
Since then, Motion Bank has hosted eight CCLs all over the world in the U.S., Brazil, Australia and different places in Europe. CCLs have gathered a community of more than 100 experts in the field and created a network of many renown institutions (HZT Berlin, NYU Tisch, Deakin Motion Lab and many more).
CCLs are organized by Scott deLahunta, Florian Jenett and Jeanne Charlotte Vogt.
Introduction by the team
Demonstration by participants
A selection of projects by former participants…
‘Pathfinder’
is a dance rehearsal tool developped by Christian ‘Mio’ Loclair and Raphael Hillebrand who have been participating in the very first CCL edition at Frankfurt_ID in October, 2013.
‘body(input); //spin off’
by Motion Bank associate Maria Judova and Marketa Kuttnerova. Both attended CCL#2 at HZT Berlin in 2014.
‘Cellular Body’
by Naoto Hieda who attended CCL#4 in New York and worked on his personal interpretation of ‘no time to fly’ by Deborah Hay.
‘Alteration’
by MONOFILM, an art collective consisting of the dancer Wooguru and the new media choreographer Antoni Rayzhekov
The Motion Bank Team
Florian Jenett
Frankfurt/Main, Germany
florianjenett.deFlorian Jenett is an artist and lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany. He is co-founder of the basis studio houses and art space and a long-time contributor to the Processing open-source project.
From 2010 onwards he has been researching for the Motion Bank that he co-directs since 2014. Just recently Florian became Professor for Media Computer Science at the Design Department of the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, Germany.
Scott deLahunta
Berlin, Germany
sdela.dds.nlScott deLahunta has worked as writer, researcher and organiser on a range of international projects bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. He is currently Director of Motion Bank / The Forsythe Company and Senior Research Fellow in partnership with Coventry University (UK) & Deakin University (AUS).
Jeanne Charlotte Vogt
Frankfurt & Hamburg, DE
jeannevogt.deJeanne is a dramaturge, curator and cultural producer. Since 2017, she is the artistic and managing director of NODE. Trained in management theory, working in arts and culture, she embodies the multidisciplinary perspective in the team. Her projects are working at the intersection between the digital arts, performance and technology, always aiming at spreading the means for the critical reflection and application of technology.