The official premiere of four new projects created through the DANCE MOViES Commission, the only major program in the U.S. to support new works that fuse dance with the technologies of the moving image. These projects represent the second round of this commission and encompass a single-channel video installation made from animated 3-D scans of a dancer and three dance films spanning the gamut from Depression-era musical, to love story, to dancing full throttle through city streets. The screening is followed by an open discussion with the artists.

Artist and artificial intelligence researcher Marc Downie refers to FIELD not as software, but as an open-source programming environment. Its power and versatility may make it the most radical development in the digital arts since Max/MSP/Jitter. Downie’s talk about his creation and its artistic applications will be accessible even to non-gearheads. And gearheads (or code-heads) will get the chance to start navigating in FIELD during an immersive two-day workshop.

Punky funk meets Futurism and homespun electro in this paradoxical grouping of artists from far ends of the musical spectrum.

A world master of the viola plays an evening of music—some very old, some very new-- written expressly for his instrument and its baroque-era cousin, the viola d’amore.

An exceptional panel of international artists, engineers, and producers representing the evolving field of works created for the 360-degree panoramic screen.

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. The screening will be followed by a talk with filmmaker Astra Taylor.