Techne, or techné, is etymologically derived from the Greek word τέχνη (Ancient Greek: [tékʰnɛː], Modern Greek, which is often translated as craftsmanship, craft, or art.

 

My name is Marlon Barrios Solano, I am an experimental online producer and researcher based in NYC and Geneva (extreme mobility!). I am the creator and producer of dance-tech.net (this social networking site), dance-techTV and of the dance-tech@ (interviews and documentaries). All Dance-tech Interactive LLC projects, NYC based organization.

dance-tech.net is a social networking website connecting people concerned about the techne or the CRAFT of dance in our contemporary world, its embedded condition in technologically designed and mediated environments and of course its trainings, its stories and histories.

It explores innovation, creative processes, collaborations and the impact of new media technology and interdisciplinary approaches on the performance of movement and life.

Using the most advanced social software platforms and internet rich multimedia applications, dance-tech.net provides movement and new media artists, theorist, thinkers and technologists the possibility of sharing work, ideas and research, generating opportunities for interdisciplinary and collaborative projects.

dance-tech.net is also an experiment on developing a sustainable and alternative infrastructure for knowledge production and distribution. It is aimed to facilitate trans-local collaborative creativity allowed by the new internet.

dance-tech.net is FREE and open to all yet it growths and develops with your participation and support.

GO TO PAGE WITH ALL THE PROJECTS AND INSTANCES

Besides facilitating a rich and grounded social interaction for the community with member pages, blogs, internal messaging, group creation and discussions, dance-tech.net investigates the potential of on-line video to engage and show the many dimensions of embodied practices, its relevance and complexity.

I.-Technological Platforms:

 
dance-tech.net, this website as a social networking platform and three video channels:

VideoCommonsTV is the collaborative open and non-curated channel for all our members. Upload any video that you would like to share. Browse hundreds of videos!

dance-techTV: curated programing of high quality content!

dance-techTVLIVE: for collaborative LIVE video broadcasting


II.- Productions

We produce and aggregate the following content:

dance-tech@ Interviews

Choreography or ELSE: Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion

TECHNE: body+ motion+computation Hybrid exploration of the performance of Motion| Launching date September 2011

MoveStream: networked documentaries in collaboration with Jeannette Ginslov

Performance Research Seminars Series in collaboration with Johannes Birringer, Brunel University, London, UK .

III.- Production Platforms: working together!

We have developed several  sustainable formats/methods of approaching the production and distribution relevant media content for our community.

They offer to organizations a way to explore the potential of the new internet  for distributed collaboration and coordination of efforts and labor on the creation of media content.

They are collaborative journalism strategies are geared to leverage the viral power of social media platforms and the new internet (Web 2.0) augmenting the internet presence, developing audiences and facilitating the generation of partnerships for media production and knowledge generation.

These collaborative formats are specially tailored  and developed "citizen journalism" projects for the dance/art and new media world. They use all the dance-tech.net platforms.

An engaged international community of more than 3500 members including individual artists and organizations gives viral resonance to the distribution efforts.

They have been deployed in several international festival and events in France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Poland, The Netherlands, Brazil and more.

The three projects and strategies are:

1.- dance-tech@ interviews by international network of correspondents

 Interviews are co-produced by a "swarm" of corespondents from many important creative hubs in the world: New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, Geneva, Madrid and more. Go to interviews co-producer's group

2.- WorldGridLab
The WorldGridLab is an open itinerant studio/workshop/installation, conceived specially for the needs of festivals and/or cultural activity hubs deploying a flexible connected space transforming a gallery space, the theater lobby or festival hub in an interactive node for experiments on new approaches on on-line content production and news casting such as live blogging, video podcasting and live broadcasting. It offers innovative ways of generating information and knowledge about the event and the art practices. It makes the production of news and media a public forum, a performance/installation and a hub for global interaction. It is an intervention of the festival or event site with a collaborative approach for the "spectacle of knowledge" and its production. WorldGridLab has been deployed in several international festivals in France, Germany, Brazil, Poland and Turkey

WorldGridLab is an associated project with the Gilles Jobin Company in Switzerland and was developed with the support of EXTRA 09 Festival in Annecy, France.

Go to WorldGridLab page

3.-Embedded Vlogger
In this format dance-tech.net covers festivals, conferences, and special programs creating comprehensive video podcasts, interviews and short documentaries about the artists and activities. As an embedded vlogger, a dance-tech.net correspondent is in residency at the event and offers online coverage in coordination with the venue. EV offers an insider view and process oriented documentation.
Go to Embedded Vlogger

Watch Video podcasts from MUSE 0101 organized by Tanzplan Dresden

IV.-Knowledge: Consulting, lecturing and  workshops

 We also offer the knowledge and services of an internationally recognized team of experts on social media production, on-line sustainable production, social media strategies, art, dance and new media, interactive multimedia design, online collaboration, screen-dance and web development.

We combine all these topics with  an in depth knowledge and respects for  arts and cultural industries.

Our team have worked for many international professional events  and educational institutes.

NOTE: Correspondents, WorldGridLab, Embedded Vlogger and Knowledge may be adapted to the partner of client needs and vision.

Dance-tech Interactive LLC represents several artists and researchers:

 Gilles Jobin Company(for North America)

La Ribot (for North America)

Roger Bernat (for North America)

Ashley A. Friend

How is dance-tech.net supported:

- dance-tech.net is FREE! Use it!

- By Voluntary Donation: a 3 $ recurrent donation for one year or one time any amount donation using PayPal used to support technological platforms.

- Collaborating with curated content for special series of dance-tech.net such as artists collaborating for Choreography or ELSE or TECHNE.

-Becoming and organization partner collaborating with an amount that will give specific privileges for logo space and impact full network use. The moneys provided by the partners goes directly to support interviews. All  dance-tech.net correspondents are paid.

-Become a co-producer of live transmissions and interviews.

dance-tech interactive llc is an experiment on social bussiness and open bussiness

My bio:

Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan professional nomad, Vlogger, on-line experimental producer, consultant, researcher and international lecturer/workshop leader based in and New York, USA and Geneva, Switzerland.

He is the executive director of Dance-tech Interactive and creator/producer dance-tech.net, a social networking site, dance-techTV, a collaborative internet video channel, and of dance-tech@, a series of online video interviews exploring innovation and interdisciplinary investigations on the performance of movement. He has also developed several projects on collaborative journalism  and produces the on-live video series: Choreography or ELSE  and Techne.

With a hybrid background in dance, new media technologies and cognitive science, he continues to investigate the intersection of the performance of motion with new media technologies, real-time composition (improvisation and interactive technology), embodied cognition while experimenting with on-line platforms for the development of sustainable models of knowledge production-distribution among trans-local communities and contexts.

He is a lecturer for the Masters on Performance Practices and Visual Cultures for the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and and is the coordinator of the Gva  DanceMedia Lab for the Gilles Jobin Company (Switzerland) and is the adviser on collaborative technologies for the South American Network of Dance (movimiento.org). Marlon is also associate producer for DanceDigital (UK).

As a professional dancer in New York City, he performed nationally and internationally with Susan Marshal and Dancers (1997-2000), Lynn Shapiro Dance Company (1995-1998), and with the choreographers Merian Soto, Dean Moos, Bill Young, among others. He also performed with the musicians John Zorn, Philip Glass and Eric Friedlander. Under Unstablelandscape (2003-07), he performed and researched improvisational performances within digital real-time environments performing in the US and Europe.

He holds an MFA in Dance and Technology (real-time digital technology, performance of improvisation and cognition) from The Ohio State University, USA.

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