Kate Elswit

@somethingmodern

Professor of Performance & Technology, Head of Digital Research, Co-Director of the Centre for Performance, Technology, & Equity. Found on LinkedIn, Insta, Bsky

San Francisco / London kateelswit.org Joined November 2006

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern Oct 17, 2023

Beyond thrilled to announce our commission from @whitneymuseum for dance history visualizations as part of the Edges of Ailey exhibition (2024). R&D also supported by @ahrctweets under our Visceral Histories project @harmonybench @tiamoniqueuzor @mavillard cssd.ac.uk/news/kate-elsw…

www.cssd.ac.uk Researchers Elswit and Bench Commissioned to Lead Dance Data Project for The Whitney Museum of... Central's Professor Kate Elswit (Professor of Performance and Technology) and collaborator Harmony Bench (The Ohio State University) are leading a dance data project on choreographer Alvin Ailey,...

Kate Elswit @somethingmodern Oct 30, 2024

Join @harmonybench @profwernimont and me online today for the @MHS_Research Shapiro Digital History Seminar!

harmonybench @harmonybench Oct 29, 2024

Tomorrow: Digital Histories of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Radical Accounting in Dance’s Archives. 10/30 at 5pm ET (online) @MHS_Research Digital History Seminar with @somethingmodern and @profwernimont responding. Register: masshist.org/events/digital…
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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern Sep 10, 2024

Proud to be a part of this monumental exhibition! Come see dance data in the wild.

Whitney Museum Verified account @whitneymuseum Jul 23, 2024

Tickets are now on sale for Edges of Ailey at the Whitney!

Celebrate the life and legacy of Alvin Ailey in a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition exploring his choreography, artistic vision, and lasting global impact.

The exhibition opens to Members on September 19, and the public on September 25. 🎟️ Get your tickets now: whitney.org/exhibitions/ed…
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Director: Ezra Hurwitz

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Kate Elswit @somethingmodern Aug 27, 2024

An expansive understanding of motion data rooted in bodily archives can offer a fuller understanding of the past while also demanding that we sit with the ethical problems that arise when data is seemingly detachable from its human sources: visceralhistories.wordpress.com/2024/08/27/exp… @harmonybench

We understand motion data within an expanded register that encompasses physical demonstrations, memories and oral history, movement cues and codified terminology, film and video footage, motion capture, and other means of accessing embodied archives. Motion data is both individual and collective, shared across generations through deep bodily time.

Kate Elswit @somethingmodern Aug 12, 2024

A pleasure to be part of @JournalTheatre's roundtable on the current state of digital research, with @sbaycheng, Derek Miller, @erinbmee1, and @sissliu. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…