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Jennifer McColl

(Great Britain/Chile)

Jennifer McColl is a Chilean dancer, performance theorist, and visual artist currently based in England. She is now finishing her MPhil in Performing Art Research at Brunel University, London. Her work as a performer and theorist has deepened on topics related with dance and technology. She has presented lectures in South America and Europe, and published books and articles in different countries. Her actual research focuses on the development of science of work in relation with the integration of technology for dance and performance in different historical contexts.

Her artistic practice is based on the relationship between body and technology, exploring different media and disciplines for the generation of body-image compositions. Her actual work presents a collaborative methodology, focusing on the creation of multimedia installations that compose architectural environments from where to present the relationship between body and space.

Website: http://mccollmisme.wordpress.com

 

Exhibitions/Creations

 

2011 beyond
Multimedia installation created by Anne-Laure Misme in collaboration with sound artist Sandy Finlayson. beyond is a multimedia installation premiered at the Artaud Centre for Performance at Brunel University, London 9th of June. The piece explores the gap between body-skin and abandoned houses, wondering about ‘in-betweeness’ as an emptiness charged with substance and time.

2010 - 2011 thirty-one-point-ten (Prototype 1 & 2)
Video installation created by Anne-Laure Misme and in collaboration with sound artist Sandy Finlayson. thirty-one-point-ten is a gathering of numerous components drawn from visuals, sounds, movements, and text woven into multi-compositional mosaic layers exploring fragmentation and presented through the triangular relationship of the 2D and 3D
objects. This installation was presented at Brunel University in two opportunities and also at the Centre for Creative Collaboration in the context of Making and Unmaking Text exhibition.

2010 Overlook (Prototype 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6)
Video installation, created in collaboration with Anne Laure Misme, where the interest lays in the body. A composition created from fragmented body-images that was presented in 6 different prototypes. The idea of prototyping since the creation of this piece has been established as one of my main methodologies for the creation of art pieces, where each
prototype presents a new / increased / modified version of the initial work. Thus meaning that there is no main art piece and secondary adaptations, but the whole process is thought from the idea of variations and the open possibilities of transformation (please refer to portfolio for images on different prototypes). This video installation was presented at Brunel University in two occasions, as well as at The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth for Moving Arts East Dance film event.

2010 Timepiece
Interactive video installation that forms part of a durational project in which the author measured everyday life actions such as drinking,
smoking, procrastinating, time spent in front of the computer, sex and masturbating, and travelling for a period of a month. The second part of this project was to interview people in the street in different cities in the world – Zurich, London, Geneva, New York, and San Francisco – and collect visual data of timing – hour – and the specific activity undertook.
The result of this process was an interactive video installation in which the audience triggered random videos from different cities, and during periods of audience absence, the results of the authors measurements where projected as visual data. This project is relevant to my development as a visual artist for two reasons: Firstly, the fact that it was a durational piece allowed me to explore video creation in different formats, and secondly, the utilization of the software Isadora for the live capture of the audience and its interactiv setup.

2009 Ecos de Luz, Optiko, directed by Ignacio Saavedra.
This installation consisted in a complex projection of automatic algorithmic-based images in a 150 meters long tunnel that connect one of the oldest elevators in Valparaiso with the lowest part of the city. It hosted more than 6.000 pedestrians in total.

2008 FACE, Optiko, directed by Ignacio Saavedra.
FACE was an installation that created a close environment of light projection for the realization of photo-sessions of illuminated faces and bodies.

2007 Espacio Binario, Optiko, directed by Ignacio Saavedra.
Espacio Binario was one of the first Optiko’s investigations in digital systems and new visual languages. It consisted in a 20 meters long inflated tube with digital projection of images over curve surfaces and artificial smoke.

Collaborations
2010 UKIYO II: Moveable World, directed by Johannes Birringer.
Ukiyo II is a performatic installation that explores the perception of constantly shifting audiovisual worlds in a highly complex environment. It is performed by an international ensemble of performers and includes a highly technological display, such as real-time interaction, live sound design, Second Life graphical interfaces, and avatar choreographies.
I participated as a guest, documenting and analyzing their methodology, and also in the creation of the lighting for its performance at Sadler’s Wells theatre.

2010 Ricochet, directed by Margaret Westby and in collaboration with A.L. Misme.
Ricochet is a sonic-choreographic performance installation that explored live recording processes (voice, language) and motion in a generative structure that creates layers of complex echoes and loops. It includes three performers from different countries, which during their performances create a soundscape out of voice recording through a wireless microphone and a pressure sensor. After the performance, the gallery room is filled with voice echoes in Spanish, English, and French, creating an open sonic installation for the audience.
Ricochet has being presented at Brunel University, as part of the final MA exams and at the 'Sensual Technologies' conference for the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts.