Joana Chicau will share insights on how her passion for dance and choreography as shaped her work and research within human-computer interaction.
She designs web-based computational systems to construct new scenarios and imaginaries guided by choreographic concepts, privileging open-source tools and investigation through a feminist lens.
She will dive into how embodied and choreographic approaches can support critical reflection and strategies for reclaiming agency over data-driven web technologies.
She invites the audience to ask themselves and their communities: How can we move away from pre-choreographed environments and compose our own choreographies? How can we choreograph countermoves in response to the computational infrastructure that surrounds us?
Biography
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.
Her practice and exploration interweaves web programming with choreography — from the making of online platforms to performances and workshops. Her work has been shown worldwide in art and tech spaces, festivals and galleries. She also organises community run events involving collaborative algorithmic improvisation and work on digital equity and activism. She is a PhD candidate at the Creative Institute at the University of the Arts London.