Babyface

Kate Ladenheim; Amy Laviers

doi:10.1145/3401956.3404253

Babyface

Kate Ladenheim, Amy Laviers

Mechanical Science and Engineering

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Abstract

UPDATED-June 23, 2020. "Babyface" is a machine-augmented, contemporary dance performance responding to feminized tropes in popular media and modern technology. Through choreography (both human and machine-based), costuming, and sound design, the piece collages ideas of perfection, servitude, aspiration, limitation, and spectacle. Specifically, this work centers a "cyborg" performer who wears a pair of robotic wings. The wings' two-degree-of-freedom motion is activated by the performer's breath through a pressure-sensitive sensor placed on the performer's abdomen. This machine defines parameters for the performer's choreographic vocabulary extending their physical reach and range of motion and activating, while also limiting, the backspace of their body. Through breath activation, it is a tool that can be consciously and unconsciously activated. Through tight coupling with this machine, "Babyface" offers an artistic response to the gendered pressures of modern technologies that absorb and disseminate existing feminine stereotypes.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450375054
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3401956.3404253
State	Published - Jul 15 2020
Event	7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020 - Jersey City, Virtual, United States Duration: Jul 15 2020 → Jul 17 2020

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

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Conference	7th International Conference on Movement and Computing, MOCO 2020
Country/Territory	United States
City	Jersey City, Virtual
Period	7/15/20 → 7/17/20

Keywords

Dance
Feminism
Wearable robotics

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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