Media Dance: An Art Form - The Intersection of Art, Technologies, and Bodies in Motion
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Media dance, as an umbrella term, building on its screendance roots, is a hybrid art form, one that operates at the intersection of dance (body in motion) and technology, with the frame of the screen in mind. In effect, media dance involves a conversation between the creator engaging with media dance, who must embrace all the possibilities of movement, dance, and technology, and the choreographer, who must grasp the possibilities of media as an art, while understanding the potential to create new kinds of works through the capture of movement and the power of editing. Building on and supported by a substantial review of the screendance literature, case study analysis, and interviews with leading Canadian and international screendance scholars, practitioners, and film festival curators, this research investigates the critical debates animating the screendance field today. The dissertation addresses one central research question in particular: is media dance, building on its screendance foundation, an art form with a viable future in a post-pandemic, technologically mediated world?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.021 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.042 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".