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This paper presents the conceptualization of an event space of interaction. Referring to enchantment as a means of describing an indeterminate and evolving state of interaction, where the meaning of the interactive object or environment remains open ended and exploratory, this paper explores how contemporary architectural concepts of space and inhabitation can allow for a new framing of interactive experiences. Presenting the two dance-architectures The Changing Room and Sea Unsea as case studies, the paper seeks to demonstrate challenges to the way space and place are understood in Human–Computer Interaction.
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The Changing Room was premiered at the Ludvig Forum, Aachen June 2004, and as part of Dance Umbrella in London, November 2004. Concept by Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Carol Brown, performance by Carol Brown, Catherine Bennett and Delphine Gaborit, choreography by Carol Brown, interface and digital design by Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, coding by Jesper Mortensen, Chris Parker and Bernard Buxton, music by Jerome Soudan/Mimetic, lighting design by Michael Mannion and costumes by Shanti Sand. The Changing Room has been extensively demonstrated in workshops in Amsterdam (Theatre Academy), Barcelona (Movement I Digits), Vancouver (Transnet), West Bretton (PARIP), Calcutta and Ahmedabad (Darpana Dance Academy), India.
Sea Unsea is under development and will be premiered in London in Oktober 2006. Work-in-progress showings have been shown at Digital Culture Lab, Radiator Festival, Nottingham, November 2005 and at Finding Fluid Form, Brighton, December 2005. Sea Unsea is conceived by architect Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and dance choreographer Carol Brown and developed in collaboration with Alan Penn, Chiron Mottram and Teis Draiby. Performance by Carol Brown and Katsura Isobe, sound by Alisatir MacDonald and lighting design by Michael Mannion.
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Thomsen, M.R. Sites of flux: imagining space in the dance-architectures of The Changing Room and Sea Unsea. Pers Ubiquit Comput 12, 383–390 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-007-0160-5
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