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tedwarburton

[about] Associate Professor, Theater Arts. Dance, Education, Technology. Research Interests: Like many contemporary artists and directors, Ted Warburton employs digital software tools and vehicles to create the visual, aural and connective materials for his works. "I go a step further by making digital technologies and remote collaborations essential components in live performances that fuse dance, theater, media, and network designs. I am attracted to this work because of the potential to enliven electronic media – to create the body electric – through the intersection of embodied, humanizing chaos on our ordered, technological society. Recent examples include "Lubricious Transfer" (2005), which used digital media and the Internet2 to create multi-site, simultaneous performances that were broadcast live to local and remote audiences in Santa Cruz and New York City; "öötöö (nightwork)" (2006), a telematic dance performance that created a shared interactive media environment between performers at UCSC and UCI; and the critically-acclaimed "Terra Nova" (2007), which melded choreography, computer animation, and motion-capture technology into a landscape of moving images and ideas. These projects were made possible in part by the Dance New Amsterdam Foundation, Jacob’s Pillow Dance, Indiana University, National Endowment of the Arts, National Science Foundation, New York University, UC Irvine, and UC Santa Cruz’s Arts & Lectures, Arts Division, Arts Research Institute, and the Committees on Teaching (COT) and on Research (COR)."
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