Dance as Algorithm: What Happens When an Animated GIF Comes to Life

Dance as Algorithm: What Happens When an Animated GIF Comes to Life

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To learn about the Internet, we tend to turn to … the Internet. Blogs comment on blogs commenting on blogs. Tweets build on Tweets. It can be one hell of a beautiful snow globe. Yet perhaps the most vital investigation in years of our complex, befuddling, empowering, discouraging relationship with technology comes courtesy of Cara DeFabio’s dance/performance show, She Was a Computer.

It’s a stunning dance and experimental theater show that pulls pieces of the Internet into the physical world with wild and beautiful results.