The “Choreographic Coding Lab” format was invented in 2013 as part of the Motion Bank research project of the Forsythe Company.

CCLs offer unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration for digital media ‘code savvy’ artists who have an interest in translating aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and applying choreographic thinking to their own practice. Working with patterns, structures and movement through finding, generating and applying them with results ranging from prototypes for artworks to new plug-ins for working with dance related datasets.

CCLs also seek to initiate a sustainable collaborative practice among its participants encouraging ongoing exchange in an artistic research community of individuals. Therefore, the network of participants will be constantly connected and represented on the website http://choreographiccoding.org.

NODE Forum for Digital Arts is engaged in bringing the collaborative research forward through the regular co-organisation of CCLs and the support of the created network of the people who joined the CCLs.

As said it is an open format we would love to see other people / organisations realise their own labs in the future. If that is you, please contact us!

This edition will take place in advance to retune conference in Berlin. The lab is hosted by HZT Berlin and will invite a wide range of artists to work collaboratively on their projects. Participants will enjoy lightning talks by members of the Motion Bank network and present their results at retune conference on September 26th. More information on application and program on http://choreographiccoding.org/

The first edition took place in Frankfurt connected to the Live & Online release event of the Motion Bank project.

The following twenty-five artists from Europe, UK and USA took part in the lab:

Emanuel Andel, Marvin Bratke, David Brüll, Rodrigo Carvalho, Gyorgyi Galik, Rita Gobi, Alexander Graf, Alexander Grasser, Johannes Helberger, Raphael Hillebrand, Sebastian Huber, Cedric Kiefer, Anton Koch, Jannis Kilian Kreft, Zach Lieberman, Christian Loclair, Andreas Müller, Gabor Papp, Antoni Rayzhekov, Marko Ritter, Felipe Sanchez, Sara De Santis, Gabriel Shalom, Johannes Timpernagel and Steven Wong. Further information on the projects developed during this week you can find on this website: http://choreographiccoding.org/