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Choreographing Web Environments

Workshop exploring code and dance by Joana Chicau

Close-up of hands pointing at and photographing abstract line drawings and diagrams on paper spread out on the floor.

What happens if we think of algorithms as choreographies and interfaces as stages?

As part of the Feeling Machines Weekender in Spring 2023, Joana Chicau led a beginners workshop exploring web environments through the lenses of choreography. We used the web browser as a performative medium to interact in real-time with online environments and their content, looking into possibilities for visual composition in browsers using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Together we reflected on the role of ‘algorithmic choreographies’, how they affect us and how we can engage in new forms of critical making.

About the artist

Joana Chicau

Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher — with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment — aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. Chicau co-organises and participates in events involving collaborative coding, algorithmic improvisation, discussions on digital equity and activism. She is a member of Varia.zone and a lecturer and PhD student at the Creative Institute at the University of the Arts London.

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