XLab@Oath featuring Kinetech Arts

XLab is a series of events, produced in partnership with like-minded organizations, where people of various disciplines get together to explore the intersection of art, science, and technology. XLab experiments with webXR, motion capture, voice & sound, body movement etc.

Program

6:00pm - 6:30pm. Networking
Come early, grab some pizza & drinks, mingle, and experience installations created by Peiqi Su, Deqing Sun, Stream Gao and (more coming).

6:30pm - 8:00pm. Lab

1. Googie: An art-ificial word speaker
Stream Gao and Xinyao Wang will present Googie, an experimental futuristic dance experiment that is collaborative, motion captured, imaginative, nagging and artificial, all in real time.

2. Open Perform: A New Way to Perform Live
Travis Bennett will demonstrate OpenPerform’s integration with real-time motion capture using the Perception Neuron. After the demonstration, we will invite the audience to explore and contribute to a new, experimental work.

OpenPerform brings real-time motion capture to artists and performers excluded by the high barriers to entry of expensive or "closed" systems like Unity. Free-flowing collaboration is the sine qua non of both open source code and art. Our open source javascript performance framework enables artists to take direct control of the medium, to quickly collaborate with others, and to easily craft new experiences for all web-based platform (including AR and VR).

8:00pm - 8:30pm. More networking and pizza

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About

Oath Inc. is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications that serves as the umbrella company of its digital content subdivisions, including AOL and Yahoo! Oath Inc. develops content for consumers and advertising solutions for brands and publishers across the globe. The company’s brands include Yahoo!, Yahoo Sports, Tumblr, RYOT, AOL, Engadget, Huffington Post etc.

Kinetech Arts is a non-profit organization that combines dance and science with the newest interactive technology. Founded by Weidong Yang and Daiane Lopes da Silva in January 2013, Kinetech Arts has performed at ODC theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Moscone Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, Djerassi, De Young Museum, CounterPulse, among others. They host the DanceHack, an annual tech + dance festival, in association with CounterPulse SF. Kinetech Arts was recognized by the SF WEEKLY as "Best Genre-Defying Sci-Artistic Collaboration of 2014". The Kinetech Arts Open Lab is a weekly event where people of various disciplines get together to explore the intersection of dance, science and technology. These meetings are an opportunity to discover interesting new tools, try out ideas, learn about the latest in performance and technology, and meet with like-minded people. It’s free. It’s always new and different, and everyone is welcome to participate.