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IMA alumna Heidi Boisvert’s project

[RADICAL] SIGNS OF LIFE
AND bring an expressive virtual world populated by corporeal sounds and generative imagery from dancers’ bodies to a wider audience.

[radical] signs of life is one of the first large-scale uses of biotechnology to integrate networked bodies and interactive dance.

Through responsive dance, [radical] signs of life externalizes the mind’s non-hierarchical distribution of thought. Music is generated from the dancers‘ muscles and blood flow via biophysical sensors that capture sound waves from the performers’ bodies. This data triggers complex neural patterns to be projected onto multiple screens as 3D imagery. As the audience interacts with the images produced, they enter into a dialogue with the dancers.


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Prof. Kelly Anderson is awarded 2013 Presidential Award for Excellence for Creative Activity

“Today President Raab announced that Kelly Anderson was awarded a 2013 Presidential Award for Excellence for Creative Activity, one of only two Hunter faculty members to receive this honor.

Students and faculty in the IMA Program have long valued Kelly’s talents as a filmmaker, teacher, mentor, and colleague. As Ricardo Miranda aptly put it, this recognition is “hugely deserved.” Now others at Hunter will get a sense of just how lucky we are to have Kelly here.

Yesterday I watched as Kelly provided insightful guidance in a thesis defense and spent hours interviewing IMA students interested in teaching sections of 150 and 160. She gave no hint that she had received this award, but she must have known.

Kelly was simply doing what she always does at Hunter, giving herself fully to the task at hand. That’s one of the qualities that distinguishes her creative work – she puts so much of herself into her films. In a recent interview, the author Jonathan Franzen noted that the writers he admires most “palpably have skin in the game.” Kelly has definitely got lots of skin the game.

Congrats Kelly!”

— Prof. Andrew Lund

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