Digital and virtual dance, avatar embodiment, and remote choreographic collaboration
Delivering meaningful practice-based and user-focused research
Introduction
The Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer research hub, led by Dr Dan Strutt with Senior Researcher Clemence Debaig, delivers meaningful practice-based and user-focused research in the area of digital and virtual dance. They collaborate with strong industry and academic partners to research
· Embodied creativity in immersive and augmented media platforms.
· Design for accessibility and inclusivity
· Agency and representation in ‘metaverse’-type environments'
· Remote collaboration and co-authorship.
Dan Strutt
Principal investigator
Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer’s Principal Investigator and Lead Researcher Dr Dan Strutt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he teaches screen media theory and analysis alongside creative economy theory. His monograph ‘The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema’ was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2019, and the co-authored ‘Fashion as Creative Economy’ by Polity in 2022 (with Angela McRobbie and Carolina Bandinelli). He collaborates with dance and digital artists on public-funded projects in the area of motion-capture dance data and telematic performance, and currently holds a British Academy Innovation Fellowship.
