Dances with Rhizome Pixels / 2013 / Digital Video / 6:46 / A collaboration between Alex Zandi and Ambika Subramaniam
A digitized marionette performs the dance form of Bharatanatyam. The classical dance, in which movement once described the cultural notions of the body, becomes a cyber-dance, simulating gestus through technobiology and written hypertext. Consciousness within movement is derailed by the interactive behavior with technology, transforming the coordination between natural body rhythms and surroundings into a technologically mediated hyperactivity and hyperrealism with movement and image.
