Performances, Invited Exhibitions & Interactive Media Works:
2018-2019
Creator and performer
Motion Lab, Columbus, OH
Transmedia communal performance rituals performed monthly in Columbus, OH and touring to NYC, Australia and New Zealand in 2020
https://photos.app.goo.gl/k8P2RU5uaVo1rLSK9
Co-creator and Director for growing international network of artists, scholars and activists seeking to foster creative solutions to survival under planetary conditions of unpredictability and crisis. Livable Futures projects are collaborative; they integrate artistic, scientific and humanistic methods and practices; and they are inclusive and socially responsive. Ongoing creative projects include:
PODCAST AND AUDIO WALKS (forthcoming 2020)
Discussions and guided walks with artists offering sensory and creative responses to planetary change and crisis
Guests include: Complex Movements, Kelly Klein, Michael Morris, Candace Thompson CURB, Amy Youngs
CLIMATE GATHERING
Transmedia performance rituals turning toward climate change and feeling into action
GRANT PROGRAM for new exhibitions and artworks
We have funded more than 20 interdisciplinary exhibitions, artworks and creative workshops: read more here
https://livablefuturesnow.org/blog
Group Exhibition: Coding the World / Mutation and Creations
Synchronous Objects selected HD animations and images in gallery timeline: “The Body in Code”
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Curator: Frederic Migayrou
Well of Pearls
Creative Producer
Choregoraphy by Andre M Zachery
Motion Lab, Columbus, OH
2017
Performer and co-creator
Motion Lab, Columbus, OH
Intermedia performance with Ohad Fishof and Noa Zuk, humane action, using what's at hand
Humane Technology Virtual Reality Prototype
Creator and Director of two-year humane technology initiative including virtual and mixed reality projects foregrounding an ethics of care, full-bodied movement, open-ended play, personal agency, critical engagement and meaningful social connection. My focus has included facilitation and fostering collaboration as well as development of prototypes including:
MOVEMENT FOR WELL-BEING
Created and funded new annual artist residency for MFA students to work with the Champion Intergenerational Center, a public sector organization
dedicated to adult day services and early childhood education. Projects include biophilic design and go-prop story telling.
MOVEMENT STORM creative collaboration facilitation
Writing jam and collaboration catalyst for more effective brainstorming.
Included in the summary proceedings for the Artistic Doctorates in Europe project
https://www.artisticdoctorates.com/category/resources/
METHOD OF LOCI mixed reality collaboration space
Virtual Reality experience, multi-scaled integrated sandbox for collaborative meaning making
Created with Alan Price et al.: humanetechosu.org https://vimeo.com/239835481
BIRDBOT Virtual Reality flyover game
Virtual Reality full-bodied movement interface for creative play
Created with Alice Grischenko et al.: humanetechosu.org and https://vimeo.com/239834267
Albatross: Real Time Motion Capture Performance
Motion Lab, Columbus, OH
Co-creator with animator Vita Berezina Blackburn. Scored improvisation for two dancers, real-time motion capture and headlines of
ebola crisis and extreme events occurring globally.
Watch here: https://accad.osu.edu/research-gallery/real-time-performance
2015
Rife Center, Columbus, OH
Social engagement, youth, climate change, student performers.
Choreography, intermedia design and direction of group work for faculty concert; 12 students engaging climate change, climate justice, and ecological inheritances and futures through the body
Watch full work https://vimeo.com/173781832
2013
Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
Installation for Dance! Moves that Move Us! Curator: Colleen Schmitz
Motion Bank: TWO…the thinking body and dancing mind
Interactive media, motion capture animation, video and information graphics
Published online Nov. 28: http://scores.motionbank.org 50k+ clicks
Creative Directors: Norah Zuniga Shaw and Maria Palazzi
Created for Motion Bank, an initiative of The Forsythe Company and the German Federal Cultural Foundation with additional funding from The Ohio State University.
Launched at the Frankfurt Lab, Germany with extensive press in Germany including the Frankfurt Allgemeine.
2012
Group Exhibition: SYNERGY
Synchronous Objects
Simon Center Gallery: Stony Brook University, NY USA
Curator: Flo Tarjan
Solo Exhibition
Synchronous Objects
BUDA Art Center: Kortrijk, Belgium
Curator: Jonas Rutgeerts
Solo Exhibition
Wyoming Gallery, Goethe Institute: New York City, NY USA
Objects in Performance, Curator: Wenzel Bilger
Featured: New York Times, ART BEAT
2011
Solo Exhibition
Synchronous Objects three part installation
Goethe Institute: Ankara, Turkey
Curator: Dr. Thomas Lier
Solo Exhibition
Synchronous Objects three part installation
Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan: Bangalore, India
Curator: Petra Roggel
Solo Exhibition: Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography Exhibition and Performances
Synchronous Objects two part installation
POGON Jedinstvo Theatre: Zagreb, Croatia
Curator: BADCo
William Forsythe Choreographic Objects Exhibition
Synchronous Objects two part installation
Taipei Arts Festival: Taipei, Taiwan
2010
Featured artwork, Group Exhibition: International Symposium on Electronic Arts
Degrees of Unison 5 part multi-channel sound and video installation
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
ISEA2010 and European Cultural Capital: RUHR 2010
Curator: Andrea Broeckmann
Group Exhibition: Digital Incarnate
Synchronous Objects
Columbia College: Chicago, IL
San Francisco Dancefilm Festival: San Francisco, CA USA
2009
Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced
Interactive video, information graphics, software tools, and animation
Published online April 1: http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu 1 million+ clicks
Creative Directors: Norah Zuniga Shaw, Maria Palazzi and William Forsythe
Funded by The Forsythe Foundation, Battelle Endowment, and The Ohio State University
Selected Awards:
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AdobeMax 2009 Awards – Finalist
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Webby Awards 2009 – Nominated
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Columbus Society of Communicating Arts – Creative Best 2009 – Winner “Best in Category-Interactive” and “Judge’s Choice Award”
Selected Features:
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New York Times, Sunday
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International Herald Tribune
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Frankfurt Allgemeine
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VisualComplexity.com
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Generator.x.com
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Exhibitions:
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Centre Pompidou, Wexner Center for the Arts, ISEA 2010: PACT Zollverein, Taipei Arts Festival, Wyoming Gallery NYC and many others
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Numerous blogs and local press including: Pacific Northwest Ballet, TEDx, Mid-Day Bangalore, Dancer's Group San Francisco, Time Out Chicago, The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
2008
In Six Points
EMMA Lab, Columbus, OH
Choreography for trio performance in interactive sound environment exploring vectors of conflict
2007
DNA Unbound
COSI (Center for Science and Industry) Children's Museum
Collaborating artist with biologist Susan Fisher and animator Vita Berezina-Blackburn
Exhibit integrating biology, design, dance, and interactive media to teach science concepts
Dance and Media Installations
NEO Gallery, Columbus, OH
Mixed media performance installations developed during residencies in San Jose, Costa Rica and in the Netherlands at De Waag Society using The Living Map improvisation scores and processes
-Murmur for 5 Dancers. Dance improvisation with interactive sound environment using found sound and site-specific scores developed in urban and rural locations in Europe
-Found Dances. Small screen video dances for distinct ecosystems embedded in sculpture
-In Dutch Time. Media installation in paper table on the passage of time in De Waag square
-Stop / Motion / Capture. Motion capture animation stills on large scale acetate sheets
Murmur: Burning Dreaming Rolling
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), PLEX Theater: Copenhagen, Denmark
Choreography for interactive sound performance created with composer Marc Ainger and cirque nouvelle performers, Jerome Thomas and Hyacinthe Reisch
View clips here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9_kY-ijuY
2006
Dances for Television: 3 Shorts
WOSU-TV (PBS) Channel 34, Columbus, OH
Choreography for television broadcast and online: wosu.org/archive/dances/index
Watch here: https://wosu.org/classroom/for-students/classroom-videos/dances-for-television/
-Nearing (7 minute short) elder dancer Vera Blaine solo with motion capture animation
-Rhythm of Things (3 minute short) hip hop dancer awakens in an urban restored wetland
-I am, Dancer (4 minute short), intergenerational performers from throughout Columbus, OH
2005
Streets Called Home
United Nations Summit on Information Technology Gala Performance: Interactive theatre work with SMARTLab, Tunisia
2004
Any/NANO/Body
NANO exhibit, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA): Los Angeles, CA
Choreography for six dancers in interactive media exhibition by Victoria Vesna
Costumes by fashion designer Isabel Toledo
2003
Migration Songs
DVD featuring: Simone Forti, Peter Carpenter, and Marianne Kim
Creative direction and choreography for media project funded by the University of California Natural Reserve System, Irvine, CA including dancefilm and special features on migration patterns along the Pacific Flyway of the Americas
Public Speaking:
2019
American Society for Environmental History, US
"Eco-Performance and Livable Futures"
Invited Plenary Panel
University of Alabama, Collaborative Arts Research Initiative, USA
Creative Research for Livable Futures
Invited Public Lecture and group facilitation to connect interdisciplinary faculty
2018
Artistic Doctorates in Europe: Adie Convening, Chichester, UK
Master Class with Vida Midgelow. “Posthuman Entanglements: Practicing an Ethics of Care in Body Based Research”
MOCO: International Conference on Movement and Computing, Genoa, Italy
Practice session. “Humane Technology Movement Storm”
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
Transmission in Motion network convened by Professor Maaike Bleeker
Invited Public Lecture for launch
2017
Maison de la creation, University of Grenoble and National Choreographic Center of Grenoble, France
Keynote: "Collaboration for Humane Technologies"
Princeton University: Princeton, NJ
Evnin Lecture: "What Else Might Physical Thinking Look Like?"
Denison University, Ohio
Keynote Mellon Lecture: "Dance, Data, Climate Changes"
2016
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Keynote: "Futures in Motion"
2014
American Society for Theater Research Conference: Baltimore, MD
Theater Library Association Plenary: The Paradox of the Posthuman
Invited Plenary Presenter
New York University, Tisch and Performance Studies: New York City, NY USA
Fostering the Future of Dance in Higher Education Summit convened by Simon Dove & Karen Schupp
Emily Carr University of Art and Design: Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Moving Stories Residency convened by Thecla Schiphorst
Keynote: “Choreographic Visualization in Motion Bank and Synchronous Objects”
2012
New York University, Performance Studies: New York City, NY USA
Objects in Performance Symposium convened by Andre Lepecki
Keynote: “Choreographic Objects”
2011
Harvard University: Boston, MA
Invited Lecturer. “Choreographic Objects”
ICK Amsterdam Research Center of Emio Greco EG/PC: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Beyond Series 2011
Master Class Instructor and Lecturer. “Choreographic Resources from Art and Science”
Goethe Institute : Tokyo, Japan
William Forsythe & Tatsumi Hijikata: Illustration of the Body Symposium and Workshops
Master Class Instructor with Christopher Roman (The Forsythe Company). “Systems and Scoring”
Invited Panelist. “Synchronous Objects and the Next Level of Imaginary Trace”
Goethe Institute/Max Mueller Bhavan: Bangalore, India
Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison gallery talks and workshops alongside exhibit
Master Class Instructor. “Intercultural Collaboration with Attalakkari Center for Movement Arts”
Gallery Talk. “Synchronous Objects Workshop Demonstrations with Christine Burkle (Ballet Frankfurt) and the Attalakkari Dance Company dancers”
Taipei Arts Festival: Taipei, Taiwan
Choreographic Objects events alongside exhibition
Keynote Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects and Choreographic Objects.” Festival Opening Events
Master Class Instructor for professional engineers and students in design and animation
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Zentrum für Zeitgenössischen Tanz/
Academy for Music and Dance: Cologne, Germany
Gender, Choreography, Media Conference:
Invited Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects, Crossing Borders and other Interdisciplinary Concerns”
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln /Academy for Media Arts. Cologne, Germany
It’s a Life Series convened by Professor Marie-Luise Angerer
Invited Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects: It’s Life”
University of Basel, National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Eikones
Working Group for Iconic Criticism: Basel, Switzerland
Images of Animate Movement, Representations of Life Conference
Keynote Lecturer. “From Improvisation Technologies to Choreographic Objects”
Goethe Institute: Ankara, Turkey
Invited Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects and the Mobility of Dancing Ideas”
Goethe Institute: Budapest, Hungary
Invited Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects and Contrapuntal Collaboration”
Dance Tanc Iskola / Contemporary Dance Academy: Budapest, Hungary
Master Class Instructor for teachers and students in Masters program
Trofo Theater and The Workshop Foundation: Budapest, Hungary
Master Class Instructor for professional dancers
POGON Jedinstvo Theatre: Zagreb, Croatia
Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography Exhibition and Symposium curated by BADCo
Invited Panelist. “Synchronous Objects and Algorithmic Considerations”
Gallery Talk and Workshop instructor: “Choreographic Systems”
2010
Chicago Humanities Festival: Chicago, IL USA
The Forsythe Company Frankfurt Lab: Frankfurt, Germany
"Degrees of Unison"
Goethe Institute: Beijing, China
Goethe Institute: Taipei, Taiwan
Goethe Institute: Tokyo, Japa
ICK Amsterdam Research Center of Emio Greco EG/PC: Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Beyond Series 2010
Master Class Instructor and Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects in the studio”
PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
ISEA2010 International Symposium on Electronic Arts / RHUR 2010
Invited Lecturer with philosopher Erin Manning. “Synchronous Objects and Objects of Thought”
Tanzplatform/Dance Platform: Nuremburg, Germany
Invited Lecturer. “What Else Might This Dance Look Like?”
Folkwang Hochschule / Academy of Folkarts: Essen-Werden, Germany
Tanzplan Biennale: Rekonstruktion/Reconstruction
Invited Panelist for symposium and dance reconstruction convened by Gerald Siegmund
Master Class Instructor with Olga de Soto, Claudia Jeschke, Josephine Endicott (Pina Bausch), Alice Condodina (Jose Limon). “Synchronous Objects and Contemporary Dance Reconstruction”
Hampshire College, 5-College Dance Program: Amherst, MA USA
Invited Guest Lecturer. “What Else Might This Dance Look Like?”
Cornish College: Seattle, WA USA
Invited Guest Lecturer. “Synchronous Objects”
University of Washington DXArts and Department of Dance: Seattle, WA USA
Invited Guest Lecturer. “What Else Might This Dance Look Like?”
University of California, Irvine Department of Dance: Irvine, CA USA
BODY TECH: Symposium on Interactive Media and Embodied Performance
Invited Guest Lecturer and Master Classes Instructor. “What Else Might This Dance Look Like?”
2009
TEDx Columbus: Columbus, OH USA
Tanzkongress 2009: No Step Without Movement Conference
Kampnagel: Hamburg, Germany
Anton Bruckner Private Universität and Ars Electronica: Linz, Austria
Challenging Music, Dance and Performance: The Electronic Media Symposium
Keynote Lecturer. “Visualizing Choreographic Information and Digital Mediums”
PACT Zollverein: Essen, Germany
EXPLORATIONEN Festival 2009
Sadler’s Wells: London, UK
Focus on Forsythe: Choreographic Objects Exhibition
Invited Panelist with William Forsythe, Emio Greco, Siobhan Davies: “Synchronous Objects”
Spring Dance Festival: Utrecht, Netherlands
Inside Movement Knowledge Working Group Symposium
Wexner Center for the Arts: Columbus, OH
Transfigurations Symposium and Webcast
Moderator and Presenter. “Choreographic Objects”
2008
University of California, Berkeley Department of Philosophy: Berkeley, CA USA
Invited Guest Lecturer with Alva Nöe. “Philosophical Issues in Synchronous Objects”
University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Scotland
Beyond Text: Choreographic Objects
Invited Participant Research Think Tank
Tanzplan Biennale: Berlin, Germany
2007
Chicago Cultural Center: Chicago, IL USA
Peck School of the Arts: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA
Thinking Bodies and Unstable Systems: Visualizing Choreographic Thinking
CYBERARTS Festival: Boston, MA USA
SIGGRAPH 2009: New Orleans, LA USA
Information Aesthetics Panel Discussion
Publications:
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
“Living in Counterpoint” Norah Zuniga Shaw. Handbook of Contemporary Ballet. Oxford University Press, Forthcoming.
“Dancing Life.” Norah Zuniga Shaw. Handbook of Improvisation in Dance. Vida Midgelow Editor. Oxford University Press, 2018.
“Animate Inscriptions, Articulate Data, and Algorithmic Articulations of Choreographic Ideas.” Norah Zuniga Shaw. Choreographic Practices Journal, 2014.
“Talking About Scores.” Norah Zuniga Shaw with Rebecca Groves and Scott deLahunta. Knowledge in Motion: Perspectives of Artistic and Scientific Research in Dance. Editors Pirkko Husemann, Sabine Gehm, Katharina von Wilcke. Bielefeld: [transcript], 2008.
“Choreographic Resources: Agents, Archives, Scores, and Installations.” Norah Zuniga Shaw with Scott deLahunta. Performance Research Journal, V.13.1. 2008.
“Constructing Memory: the Choreographic Archive.” Norah Zuniga Shaw with Scott deLahunta. Performance Research Journal, V.11.4, 2006.
“Inflecting Particles: Generative Indexes for Performance at the Interstices of Dance and Computer Science.” Norah Zuniga Shaw with Dr. Matthew Lewis. Performance Research Journal, V.11.2, 2006.
BOOK
Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison. Ed. Norah Zuniga Shaw with contributions by Alva Noe, Scott deLahunta, Eleanor Bauer, Stamatia Portonova, Patrick Haggard, Chris Roman, Jill Johnson and William Forsythe. Design by Peter Kwok Chan. Self Published Art Catalog, 2013.
Available for preview: http://www.blurb.com/b/5174567-synchronous-objects
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Synchronous Objects: What Else Might This Dance Look Like?” Norah Zuniga Shaw. Ed. Maaike Bleeker.
Transmission in Motion. Routledge, 2017.
"Synchronous Objects, Choreographic Objects, and the Translation of Dancing Ideas.” Norah Zuniga Shaw.
Emerging Bodies: The Performance of Worldmaking in Dance and Choreography. Gabriele Klein, Sandra Noeth
Editors. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2011.
“Objets synchrones, objets chorégraphique, et traduction des idées continues dans le danse.” De l’un a l’autre:
composer, apprendre et partarger en mouvements." Florence Corin, Baptiste Andrien Editors. Brussels:
Contredanse, 2010.
“The Living Map and Other Stories of Becoming Re-enchanted with Where We Are.” Norah Zuniga Shaw.
Tanz – Metropole – Provinz. Editors Yvonne Hardt, Kirsten Maar.Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung.Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2007.
“iMap Observations.” Norah Zuniga Shaw. Spielsysteme: Internationales Interaktionslabor Gottelborn 2005-2006 (in English and German). Editors Johannes Birringer, Klaus Behringer. Saarbrücken: PoCul-Verlag, 2006.
EDITED TEXTS
Consulting Editor. Caught Falling. The Confluence of Contact Improvisation, Nancy Stark Smith, and Other Moving Ideas. Authors Nancy Stark Smith and David Koteen. Northampton, MA: Contact Editions, 2008.
Founding Editor and Editor in Chief. Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodiment and Technology. http://www.extensionsjournal.org/, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.
Assistant Editor. Envisioning Dance on Film and Video. Editors Judy Mitoma and Elizabeth Zimmer. New York: Routledge, 2003.
REVIEWS
Anarchic Dance, edited by Liz Aggiss and Billy Cowie with Ian Bramley. Book Reviews: Dance Research Journal, V. 41.2. Winter 2009.
“Animate Inscriptions, Articulate Data and Algorithmic Expressions Of Choreographic Thinking.” Choreographic Practices Journal V.5.1, 2014. PDF