marlon barrios solano/dance-tech.net

My name is Marlon Barrios Solano, I am based in NYC and Dresden. I am the creator and producer of dance-tech.net (this social networking site), dance-techTV and of the dance-tech@ (interviews and documentaries).

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.

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.

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.

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


dance-tech.net is also an experiment on developing a sustainable and alternative infrastructure for knowledge distribution and trans-local collaborative creativity facilitated by the new internet.

Your participation MAKES the SITE

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

How to support and getting more involved? Go to Memberships Page

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.

dance-techTV is an online collaborative network of video channels dedicated to the performance of movement, creative processes, new media and interdisciplinary arts. It supports curated channels for LIVE transmission and programing of high quality content and it is available for co-productions and partnerships with members of the community.

Dance-tech PRODUCTIONS

dance-tech.net also produces the dance-tech@ (interviews and documentaries) and is involved in several co-productions.

Dance-tech EDUCATION We have developed several workshops, residencies and educational partnerships for the exchange of know-how and experiences on dance and new media and on the use of social media for knowledge generation and distribution.

The workshops Network on Movement (REM Red en Movimiento), developed in partnership with the South American Network of Dance and Movimiento.org, have deployed in Uruguay, Brazil, Argentina and Spain.

COLLABORATIVE JOURNALISM AND SUSTAINABLE MEDIA PRODUCTION

dance-tech.net offers to his members and friends sustainable collaborative strategies to produce and distribute networked digital content. These strategies are geared to collaborate on how 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 and distribution of knowledge of the partnering venue.

These collaborative formats are specially tailored "citizen journalism" projects for the dance/art and new media world. They use all the dance-tech.net platforms and its partners: dance-tech.net, movimiento.org (Spanish and Portuguese), dance-techTV (in Livestream, You Tube and blipTV), and the dance-tech@ (interview series).

An engaged international community of more than 6000 members that includes individual artists and organizations gives viral resonance to the following projects:

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 such as Panorama de Danca (Brazil), CYNETART (Germany) and EXTRA 09 and 10 (France).

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


NODES@: Embedded Vloggers
In this format Marlon Barrios Solano covers festivals, conferences, and special programs creating comprehensive video podcasts, interviews and short documentaries about the artists and activities.

Go to NODES@: Embedded Vloggers

Watch Video podcasts from MUSE 0101 organized by Tanzplan Dresden

My bio:

Marlon Barrios Solano is a Venezuelan professional nomad, Vlogger, on-line experimental producer, consultant, researcher and international lecturer/workshop leader based in New York and Dresden. With a hybrid background in dance, new media technologies and cognitive science, he investigates 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 development of sustainable models on knowledge production and distribution among trans-local communities and contexts.

He is the creator/producer of 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 participated as a vlogger, guest lecturer, workshop leader, media partner, researcher in residency and consultant for many organizations and events in the US, Europe, South America, the Middle East and North Africa. He is a guest lecturer for the Masters on Performance Practices and Visual Cultures for the Universidad de Alcala (Spain) and is the adviser for the South American Network of Dance.

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.


He is the director of Dance-tech Interactive LLC producing dance-tech,net, dance-techTV, dance-tech@ and the WorldGridLab

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For inquiries on projects, lectures, workshops, seminars and/or consulting (or just to say hello) email me at: marlon@dance-tech.net
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helena febres
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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 collaborative projects.

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

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