Time to Compile

Abstract

"Time to Compile"1 is the result of an extended in-house residency of an artist in a robotics lab. The piece explores the temporal and spatial dislocations enabled by digital technology and the internet and plays with human responses to articulated machines (robots) in that setting. The audience journeys through a suspended, disparate landscape that aims to reconcile these responses to technology and machines. This proposal offers to bring an excerpt of the piece, live dance performance surrounded by videos of robots created in the lab, to MOCO. Additionally, an interactive installation could be produced if MOCO has the timing bandwidth to offer this more involved setup.