AffeXity was about choreographing affect using the Argon AR browser on a mobile phone to look for hidden choreographies and layers of movement in a city. Playing on both ‘affect city’ and ‘a-fixity’, AffeXity was an interdisciplinary, collaborative, social choreography project drawing together dance, geo-spatially tagged visual imagery, and people using mobile-networked devices. The first city for AffeXity was Malmö, Sweden. Short dance video narratives, shot in the city with a focus on amplifying affect and corporeality, were geospatially tagged and accessed by audiences using Argon, a free open-source AR browser on their mobile phones. Audience members could then experience the hidden choreographies as part of a performance event or on their own, using their own devices according to their own rhythms. It was anticipated that other cities would be used to explore Argon for more affective locative choreographies. Located in Medea’s wider research and production profile, this was a material and performative example of the “Internet of Things.”
Collaborators: Susan Kozel (Malmö University, Sweden), Jeannette Ginslov (Screendance) Timo Engelhardt (MA student, Malmö Högskola), Jay David Bolter (Mixed Environments Lab, Georgia Tech, USA) Maria Engberg (Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden, & Georgia Tech USA), Wubkje Kuindersma (Dance Artist, Copenhagen)
Video: https://youtu.be/03uTRXtdi3A by Jeannette Ginslov