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VR Installation 'Black Movement in Digital Spaces' by LaJuné McMillian

Mar 31
2023
12:00pm - 2:00pm
On Campus Event - Carpenter Library, Digital Media and Collaboration Lab, Level A
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The Digital Media and Collaboration Lab, located in Carpenter, Level A, will host a limited installation of LaJuné McMillian’s work during the week of March 27-31, including three stations that will show McMillian’s video art and archiving process and a station that will utilize a VR headset to view their work. Available for view will be the collaborative work, Antidote, a narrated short film (20 minutes) that utilizes motion capture software to create a landscape in which the movers explore their relationships to embodiment and spirituality. While addressing the colonial contexts that frame human relationships to both land and cyberspace, they enact, within this virtual world, a healing of bodies, lands, and movement.

The installation also includes a series of video self-portraits, and “Movement Portraits” from McMillian’s ongoing Black Movement Library project. The Black Movement Library-Movement Portraits serves as a way to learn about the lives of performers contributing their movement data to the Black Movement Library, taking viewers on a journey through each portrait. Using motion capture and Unreal Engine, performers send their movement data to be translated into visuals in real-time. What happens when we ritualize the archival process of data collection and invite the community as a witness? These portraits enable us to learn and speculate about the history, the past, and the future of Black movement, about the wealth of movement practices and journeys that exist and manifest through Blackness and Black culture.

Open hours are Monday, March 27 and Thursday, March 30, 4-6 p.m.; Tuesday, March 28, 5:45-6:30 p.m.; Wednesday, March 29 and Friday, March 31, 12-2 p.m. Other viewing times are available on those days between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. through reservation by emailing lcarusoh@brynmawr.edu with the subject line, McMillian installation.

Performing Arts Series

DIGITAL MEDIA AND COLLABORATION LAB

Audience: Public
Type(s): Exhibition
Contact:
Linda Caruso Haviland

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