Kinetech Arts Projects
Since 2013 Kinetech Arts has been creating many indelible performances and events. The following is an overview of some of the major performances.
2017
CHAMBER – Murmur, Pulse and Potluck
Location: Joe Goode Anex, 401 Alabama St. SF CA
Date: Nov. 16 & 17, 2017
Description: CHAMBER – Murmur, Pulse and Potluck, the newest interactive performance by Kinetech Arts, grew out from curiosity about the science and mysteries of the heart. By observing, measuring and collecting our hearts data, Kinetech Arts strives to illuminate information on the essence of our beings, our need for intimacy, connection, trust and our most current state as individuals and as a community. The process embodies the spirit of bridging together art with technology, human experience with data, and people of different disciplines into one community.
Cast: Concept: Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva
Direction: Daiane Lopes da Silva
Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silvain collaboration with the dancers
Dance: Clover Mathis, Gama Hsü, Hien HuynhJocelyn Reyes, Juliet Paramor and Tanja London
Poetry : William Blake interpreted by David Chase
Live painting: Raymond Larrett
Installation: Tanja London with video projection by Matt Hoe and technology by Weidong Yangand Travis Bennet
Music: Anna He (Clover Mathis solo musicby David Lang), Programing by Weidong Yang
Visual design and technology: Travis Bennett and Weidong Yang
Lighting and Sound: Beth Hersh
MESH
LocatIon: CounterPulse Combustible Residency at CounterPulse 80 Turk St. SF
Date: Sep. 7-9 and 14-16 2017
Description: MESH juxtaposes old and new technologies to tell the story of personal struggle against a life-threatening illness. A medical device – a mask made of mesh – holds the dancers’ suffering and fear, but also their hope and resilience. The mesh restricts the dancers, but it cannot restrict their imagination, their love, or their spirit, expressed through the movements of their bodies. Their spirit is refracted by a painter who uses their bodies as a canvas on which to paint a digital landscape that augments their inner states.
Cast: Concept by Daiane Lopes da Silva and Weidong Yang. Art direction by Jiayi Young. Choreography by Daiane Lopes da Silva. Technology direction by Weidong Young. Motion capture development by Travis Bennett. Performance by Daiane Lopes da Silva, Hien Huynh, Maria Sotnikova, Juliet Paramor and Weidong Yang. Technical assistance by Shih-Wen Young. Live digital painting by Raymond Larrett.
Duality
Location:Palace of Fine Arts
Date: June 30, 2017
Description: Duality, which debuted at WebFest 3D 2017 in San Francisco, is the first live performance created with OpenPerform, a real-time, 1-to-1, Web-GL performance framework; built from the ground up to enable the direct expression of movement in a fully realized 3d universe.
Cast: Director: Travis Bennett. Choreography, Dance & Sound Design: Lauren Bedal. Design and Development: Fabien Lemaitre. Special Thanks to Weidong Yang, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Jasper Patterson, Ye Wang, Codame, Autodesk, Noitom.
Vertigo (Climate Music Project Collaboration)
Location:NOHspace
Date: April 28, 2017
Description: The ClimateMusic Project and Kinetech Arts, in association with FXPAL, collaborated in a creative partnership to to tell the story of climate change with music, dance, and video imagery.
Cast: Music: Erik Ian Walker. Video and Design: Tony Dunnigan. Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva. Dance: Diane Lopes da Silva and Maria Sotnikova.
Brainwash Machine
Location: Part of the Public Square ”Can We Design Freedom?" event at YBCA
Date: Feb. 18, 2017
Description: BRAINWASH MACHINE or, How I Learned To Stop Thinking And Love The Label”, is a multimedia event by Kinetech Arts about how labels frame thought and shapes judgement in modern life.
Cast: Weidon Yang, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Raymond Larrett, Scott Rubin, Josh Marshall, Jiayi Young, Shih-Wen Young, Alex Benedict, Maria Sotnikova, Lauren Bedal, Hien Huynh, Shareen DeRyan, Sarah Smith, Keryn Breiterman-Loader, Travis Bennett, Evan Warfel, Sony Green, Charlie Eddy, David Ruth, Hanna Regev, Joel Dreamm, Yagiz Mungan, Ksenia Fedorova.
2016
Index of Probabilities RESET/Mind My Body/Whip
Location: CuriOdyssey
Date: September 17, 2016
Description: A multidisciplinary event including a collection of collaborative projects with dancers, scientists, technologists, musicians and visual artists, with dynamic dance performances, sound-light field with arduinos, interactive installations, primitive artificial intelligence, E.C.G. experiments, and more.
Cast: Choreography by Daiane Lopes da Silva, Shareen DeRyan and Byb Bibene.
Original soundscapes by Elise Elizabeth, Erick R. Scheid and Chris D. Shaw. Performances by Maria Sotnikova, Shareen DeRyan, Amelia Eisen, Keryn Breiterman-Loader, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Byb Bibene and Norma Fong. Vocal by Lilia Naia. Installations by Weidong Yang, Alex Benedict, Travis Bennett, Robert Allison, Yagiz Mungan, Jiayi Young, Shih-Wen Young, Ian Winters and Raymond Larrett.
Falling Off
Location: Grace Cathedral
Date: August 5, 2016
Description: An exploration into the interactions between the world and our physical bodies and the transformation experienced over time. This performance is part of the Soundwave ((7)) Biennial Architecture event at Grace Cathedral.
Cast: Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva. Dancers: Shareen DeRyan, Maria Sotnikova, Keryn Breiterman-Loader, Amelia Eisen, Neta Singer, Raquel Boluda Santiago and Daiane Lopes da Silva.. Live Music: Erick R. Scheid. Singer: Lilia Naia. Technical support: Travis Bennett and Weidong Yang
Elements of Others
Location: San Francisco International Arts Festival at Fort Mason
Date: May 25, 2016
Description: an exploration of human identity in a world of Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. Taking inspiration from the Dadaist movement, Kinetech Arts uses randomness to determine the order of events, creating montage with dance, manifestos, interactive technologies, poetry and live music.
Cast: Daiane Lopes da Silva, Weidong Yang, Shareen DeRyan, Travis Bennett, Raymond Larrett, Alex Benedict, Robert Allison, Anna He, Miles Selim, Amelia Eisen, David Ruth, Keryn Breiterman- Loader, Maria Sotnikova, Sony Green. Thanks to Hanna Regev for curating the event
Metrics of Work
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2015
State Space 2
Location: Dance Mission Theater
Date: November 13-14, 2015
Description: In STATE SPACE 2, Kinetech Arts is concerned with the relationship between humans and technology. The work is inspired by Kinetech Arts year-long research in concepts of Markov Chain and Fractals. Just like chaos theory, which creates patterns out of random events, STATE SPACE 2 creates order out of chaos and reminds us that technology has
the power to change and shape new collective states and behavioral patterns.
Cast: Choreography: Daiane Lopes da Silva. Dancers: Lauren Bedal, Shareen De Ryan, Erin Alexi Huestis, Diane Mateo, Esha Nambiar and Suzette Sagisi. Technology: Weidong Yang and Travis Bennett. Visual art: Raymond Larrett and Nick Jones
2014
The Other Sight
Location: ODC Theater
Date: July 19, 2014
Description: The Other Sight integrates movement and tech finding inspiration at the intersection of current events, connectivity, and global surveillance systems. “Every move we make, every contact we hold, every penny that passes through our fingers is being monitored.” —SPF7. This performance meditates on the theme of watching and being watched and what we choose to reveal.
Cast: Choreographed by Daiane Lopes da Silva in collaboration with the dancers. Technology by Weidong Yang; visual art by Charlie Levin and Raymond Larrett; original music by Robert Edgar, Robin Edgar, and Jean Tarantino. Dancers: Daiane Lopes da Silva, Katherine Disenhof, Colin Epstein, Irene Hsiao, Qinmin Liu, Priscilla Park and Rebecca Rose Robinson- Leviton.
2013
In The Night
Location: Kunst-Stoff Arts
Date: August 12, 2013
Description: Solo performance by Daiane Lopes da Silva.
Cast: Choreography and dance by Daiane Lopes da Silva. Visual effects by Weidong Yang
2013
4SEE
Location: Kunst-Stoff Arts
Date: August 12, 2013
Description: In 4SEE, the Kinetech Arts collaborative multidisciplinary performance group explores surveillance, the invasion of privacy, and how technology changes our lives and our relationships with each other. This work was developed in residence at KUNST-STOFF arts.
Cast: Choreographed by Daiane Lopes da Silva, technology developed by Weidong Yang, Cere Davis, Jesse Zbikowski, Max Carlson, and Florian Hoenig, visual design by Raymond Larrett. Performers: Ali Weeks, ArVejon A. Jones, Irene Hsiao, Karla Quintero, Katherine Disenhof, Keon Saghari, Ong Pholchai.