Surface Tension: Reactable and hipDrawing live

Join us for an evening of performance and discussion as we explore the potential for interactive surfaces to change live performance and the arts.

hipDrawing: Danielle Wilde (Australia)
Experience hipDrawing, a combination of vocal, visual and abstract physical storytelling in which the performer is turned into a human Etch-A-Sketch. Unlike a traditional Etch-A-Sketch in which dials are turned to draw on a two-dimensional screen, hipDrawing sees wearers tracing lines with their hips through space to weave a uniquely strange, funny and highly poetic journey.

Reactable: Sergi Jorda (Spain)
Sit back and enjoy the world’s most futuristic instrument in action. Used in one of Björk’s Glastonbury performances, Reactable is a collaborative electronic instrument that creates synthesiser music in an entirely new way. It pulses, radiates and takes shape as the performer flips and rotates glowing blocks on a touch-sensitive electric blue tabletop.

Speakers:

Jennifer Sheridan, Research Officer and Digital Live Artist, London Knowledge Lab
Stephen Foulger, Content Director at The Science of…, a joint venture with the Science Museum
Carey Jewitt, Reader in Education and Technology, London Knowledge Lab
Alan Penn, Professor in Architectural and Urban Computing, The Bartlett, UCL

Performances in the Science Museum’s Dana Centre marry science with theatre, comedy and live art, stirring your emotions, messing with your mind or simply making you smile.

This event is held in conjunction with the London Knowledge Lab, supported by the EPSRC-funded UbiComp Grand Challenge.