I am a transdisciplinary movement artist, scientist, dancemaker and engineer who uses emerging technologies to create augmented performance work that connects people to themselves, each other and the world around them.

My artistic practice centers on how movement technologies like motion capture, wearable devices and biosensors can give us insights to ourselves, each other and the world around us. As a dancemaker in Chicago for over 13 years, I explore augmented networked digital dance that experiments with meaning-making through movement and choreography, multimodal biofeedback systems and non-traditional presentation modes such as augmented reality through mobile devices. In doing so, I seek to understand what moves people to move, how to mediate kinesthetic empathy, and how to improve accessibility and autonomy in dance for both performers and audience.

Christopher Knowlton, Ph.D.

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