Decoding Digital Bodies
The Decoding Digital Bodies Project
moves beyond visible representations of bodies to examine where human movement—especially dance—shapes the code, metadata, and digital archives we interact with daily. Through various creative and computational methods, we seek to uncover how choreography, gesture, and dance influence—and even haunt—our digital systems beyond visible representations of the human form.
The project is co-led with Varsha Iyengar and was funded by Wayne State University’s Arts and Humanities Research Support Grant. Funds supported two on-site residencies at Brown University’s Humans to Robots Laboratory.
Related Research
Rajko, Jessica. “Geocultural Precarities in Canonizing Computing Research Involving Dance.” 8th International Conference on Movement & Computing. Chicago, IL, ACM Press, 2022.
Rajko, Jessica J. “Techno-Neoliberalism’s Body: Dance(r) Labour in Computing Research and Race as Always Already Additive.” British Computer Society, 2021.
Iyengar, Varsha, Grisha Coleman, David Tinapple, and Pavan Turaga. “Motion, Captured: An open repository for comparative movement studies.” 4th International Conference on Movement and Computing. Thessaloniki, Greece, ACM Press, 2016.
Iyengar, Varsha. Analysis of Habitual Patterns in Vernacular Movement. MS Thesis, Arizona State University, 2016.
