Clock, Fall: Choreorobotics and Near Futures of Choreographic Practice Presented By Sydney Skybetter

Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center Theater and Performance Seminar and metaLAB (at) Harvard announce its spring keynote seminar Clock, Fall: Choreorobotics and Near Futures of Choreographic Practice, presented by choreographer and Dean at Brown University, Sydney Skybetter. The seminar will be held in the Barker Center, Room 110 on Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 5pm. For more information, click here.

A livestream of the presentation will be available on Mahindra Humanities Center’s Youtube, and a recording will be available on Youtube after the event is over. To watch Clock, Fall online, click here.

Sydney Skybetter is an expert in choreorobotics, a portmanteau of choreography and robotics, and a field which he has pioneered at the interdisciplinary intersection of choreographic theory and robotic motion planning. Choreorobotics offers a rich, critical aperture to consider how bodies in motion – human or otherwise – move through space and time to generate meaning.

In Clock, Fall, Skybetter dives into the origin of choreorobotics, recent advancements in the field, and how emerging technologies can be informed or disrupted by collective action and coalition building, drawing from his work as the founder of the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and podcast, “Dances with Robots.” In this presentation, Skybetter will cover topics ranging from Boston Dynamics robots, Tesla’s “Party Mode” and Optimus robots, parasitic aesthetic theory, the movie M3GAN, Artificial Intelligence, and a little bit of Beyoncé.

Clock, Fall: Choreorobotics and Near Futures of Choreographic Practice, Image credit Sydney Skybetter