COMMIT!
COMMIT! is an interactive performance in which a performer falls repeatedly, throwing herself on the ground trying to execute the most “committed” fall possible.
During the show, “commitment” is measured through audience feedback and sensor data that tracks body shape, speed, and impact. The performance juxtaposes unrelenting falling, real-time audience feedback on levels “commitment,” and projected visuals of collected data. Together, these elements reveal the expectations raised and enforced by technological surveillance and gamified interaction systems, and confront the viewer with the physical and emotional toll of trying to conform.
// interaction design
// installation & media design
// choreography
// mocap
// sensor fabrication
// programming: C#, processing, arduino
COMMIT! was created in collaboration with Mollye Bendell and Timothy Kelly. The project received support from the Media Design Practices Postgraduate Fellowship at ArtCenter College of Design, the Barnard Movement Lab, the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, and the MAXmachina Lab grant.
Photography by: Jill Steinberg. Produced by Media Art Xploration.
Video footage available upon request.