{"id":9603,"date":"2017-12-06T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9603"},"modified":"2017-12-06T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:00:21","slug":"sydney-skybetter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/sydney-skybetter\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | The Choreography of Things with Sydney Skybetter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"m_1270701535423750564p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/sydney-skybetter\/unnamed-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9604\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9604\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/10\/unnamed-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/10\/unnamed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2017\/10\/unnamed-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On <strong>Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library<\/strong>, Sydney Skybetter,\u00a0<span class=\"m_1270701535423750564s1\">Lecturer of Dance and Fellow of Public Humanities at Brown,<\/span> will give a talk entitled, &#8220;The Choreography of Things.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_1270701535423750564p1\"><span class=\"m_1270701535423750564s1\">Skybetter will discuss his research into ways that movement generates meaning, for people and for machines. By tracing the commingling histories of dance notation and affective computing, exploring a gamut of emerging technologies (including drone swarms, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars and robots) and ranting about the premonitionary qualities of the movie <em>Minority Report<\/em>, Skybetter will argue for the importance of choreographic method and metaphor for our emerging technological future.<span class=\"m_1270701535423750564Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Choreography of Things with Sydney Skybetter\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z8n4q00RgsQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sydney Skybetter<\/strong> is a choreographer. Hailed by <em>Dance Magazine<\/em> as \u201cOne of the most influential people in dance today,\u201d his work has been performed around the country at such venues as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Boston Center for the Arts, Jacob\u2019s Pillow and The Joyce Theater. He has consulted on issues of cultural change and technology for The National Ballet of Canada, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Hasbro, New York University and The University of Southern California, among others. A sought-after speaker, he lectures on everything from dance history to cultural futurism, most recently at Harvard University, South by Southwest Interactive, TEDx, Saatchi and Saatchi, Dance\/USA, NYU and MVR5. He is a Public Humanities Fellow and Lecturer at Brown University, where he researches the problematics of human computer interfaces and mixed reality systems. He is the founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces (CRCI), which convenes ethnographers, anthropologists, speculative designers and performing artists to discuss the choreography of the Internet of Things. He produces shows at Joe\u2019s Pub, SteelStacks and OBERON with DanceNOW[NYC], has served as a Grant Panelist for the National Endowment of the Arts, is a Curatorial Advisor for Fractured Atlas\u2019 Exponential Creativity Fund, and is the winner of a RISCA Fellowship in Choreography from the State of Rhode Island. He received his MFA in Choreography from New York University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skybetter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.skybetter.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>:\u00a0Thursday, December 7, 2017<br \/>\n<strong>Time<\/strong>: 12 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Location<\/strong>:\u00a0Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street, Providence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 12 p.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab of the Rockefeller Library, Sydney Skybetter,\u00a0Lecturer of Dance and Fellow of Public Humanities at Brown, will give a talk entitled, &#8220;The Choreography of Things.&#8221; This event is free and open to the public. A light reception will follow. Skybetter will discuss his <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/sydney-skybetter\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Event | The Choreography of Things with Sydney Skybetter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}