The IDOCDE forum is a meeting place for new & experienced members at the IDOCDE website. Eszter and Kerstin introduce the project's philosophy and some useful tools for the website, with ample time for questions.

Special guest is Marlon Barrios Solano, founder of http://www.dance-tech.net
Based on Kerstin's and Marlons's experience developing the IDOCDE and dance-tech websites we discussed  digital possibilities and limits for dance evolving around questions of embodiment and transcription.

Marlon presented the ImpulsTanz 2014 Festival App (https://www.impulstanz.com/en/app/) that allows to keep the festival schedule handy on a mobile device and the Augmented Reality App (http://dance-tech.tv/2012/10/24/augmented-reality-app/).

Exploring augmented reality

The idocde.net platform was discussed with teachers using it to document their practice. A few questions in that discussion revolved around: How are you using the website? Are you an active or inactive member(also known as lurkers)? How are you utilising the fact that the platform specifically allows and encourages to publish drafts and the sharing unfinished things to get feedback from fellow teachers. (You can specify in the settings of an idoc that it is an "IDOC Draft - an idoc asking for feedback").


Furthermore general question to consider when creating an idoc such as "Why are you writing and for whom?" and that the video integration is currently not mobile ready due to the used technology or how to deal with/implement notification about new things happening on the platform.

Then some technicalities were discussed such as: How much will the platform and content change and that the platform is a process - constant beta, always modify / change etc.. For example there has been a tremendous increase in registered users from the start of the idocde.net to this date.

~ 120 people in 2012
~ 150 people in 2013
~ 720 people in 2014

The focus was then on the matter itself as idocde.net is a system for storing knowledge but not necessarily sees itself as an archive in the traditional sense but a springboard for further exploration. In addition to the platform a vital part of the community are offline meetings that are much needed as human contact cannot be replaced by digital means.

Eszter Gál is a dancer and teacher, currently at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest, traveling & teaching internationally since 1998. She is the artistic director of Kontakt Budapest International Improvisation Festival www.kontaktbudapest.hu. She has been practicing, studying, teaching, researching releasing work (SRT) and improvisation including CI for 20 years, also works with a mixed ability Company, Tánceánia. The core of her interest is somatic-based movement research (PhD studies), improvisation performance and community work for dance education.

Kerstin Kussmaul is a freelance movement researcher with an MA in Music and Dance education. She studied Somatic Movement and TCM in Berkeley, Myoreflex, and Yoga and teaches throughout Europe. She is founder and project ambassador of IDOCDE. Her artistic focus is on music/dance projects and the development of new formats for the mediation of movement. Her work has been presented at ImPulsTanz, in USA, Italy, Germany, and Estland. Kerstin is on Dr. Mosetter’s team of Myoreflex Therapy teachers.

Marlon Barrios Solano is an artist, researcher, consultant and educator investigating the complexity of minds, life, bodies, knowledge co-creation and networked cultures from digital social networks to mobile Augmented reality apps. He is based between Berlin and a small island in the coast of Maine, USA. He is reseacher associate at HZT Berlin and creator/producer of www.dance-tech.net. He curates Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion for dance-tech.tv and initiated meta-academy, exploring networked/mobile environments for co-creation and learning on embodied practices. He is an avid Vipassana meditator. http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/network_producer

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