Excited to finally share my graduation work from the Design Academy. I’ll be performing all week, starting tomorrow. If you’re in Eindhoven come say hi!! special thanks to: Ginta Tinte Vasermane for costume design @fenomena_moda Felix Bell for videography @felix_just_felix Rebekka Jochem for electronics advice @rebekkajochem and the many mentors / advisors that I had during the process: @formafantasma @giudittavendrame @metahaven @newborin_ @oddmatter @parasiteparasite @somsiadus @armatureglobale + many more —————— At the Function (I Shake My Ass) Connor Cook Video game / performance made in Unreal Engine, 20’ Dance Dance Revolution, a dance-based rhythm game first popularised in Japan in the 1990s, challenges players to dance in time with rhythmic cues on the screen. After a decline in popularity, in recent years a devoted group of dancer-hackers revived the game by reworking an open-source version of the software in order to play faster and longer than in the original game. In this new dance game subgenre, known as stamina play, the dancers come to resemble the machine, their bodies remaining mostly still except for the rapid, micro movements of their feet. This research views the optimised, hyper-efficient movements of the dancers as an allegory for our contemporary technological culture, organised around efficiency, standardisation and submission. At the Function (I Shake My Ass) reappropriates the logic of the dance game in order to articulate an alternative relationship to technology that is open, indeterminate and playful. In this hybrid video game/performance, a performer interacts with a sensor-equipped dance pad, his movements transforming an audiovisual game environment made in Unreal Engine. The project seeks to counter the naturalised despotism of technology by inhabiting it from within and proposing a speculative, collaborative relationship with machines , oriented around non-functional, queer, affective modalities. #designacademyeindhoven #GS22 Made in @unrealengine track: Main Loop - buttechno