William Forsythe, Improvisation Technologies

By clicking “show more”, you will see a list that allows you to jump to the chapters of the CD-ROM and its booklet directly.

The CD-ROM “William Forsythe, Improvisation Technologies”, published in 1999, was designed as a pedagogical tool for the prolific choreographer. At the same time, the implementation as CD-ROM was paradigmatic in how technology at the time could be used to communicate principles of choreography and dance and was widely circulated in dance and dance studies communities.

The interactive CD was developed, produced, programmed, and published by ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany in cooperation with the Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln. Since its publication, the computer systems needed to view this CD-ROM became obsolete and then optical disc drives vanished from consumer hardware.

The menus of the CD can be jumped to via the chapter markers listed below. For editorial reasons, the videos under the menu “examples” are not included in this documentation.

This documentation was produced by Johannes Goebel as part of the Digital Time Capsule project at EMPAC at Rensselaer:
https://empac.rpi.edu/program/researc...

00:00 Credits, Copyright
00:37 DVD Box
00:59 Main Menu
01:25 CD-ROM Menus
03:52 Bookmarks
04:07 Credits
04:25 Acknowledgement
04:39 William Forsythe: solo – full screen
11:41 William Forsythe: solo – with timeline
18:33 William Forsythe: solo – slow motion with timeline
41:26 William Forsythe: solo – slow motion, full screen
The “Examples” on the original CD-ROM were left out from this documentation for editorial reasons.
1:04:27 lines: point point line
1:10:59 lines: complex operations
1:14:15 lines: approaches
1:19:22 lines: avoidance
1:21:28 lines: in general
1:23:49 writing: rotating inscription
1:28:25 writing: u-ing and o-ing
1:33:02 writing: room writing
1:33:52 writing: in general
1:36:00 reorganizing: spatial reorientation
1:39:04 reorganizing: spatial recovery
1:41:12 reorganizing: compression
1:44:14 reorganizing: isometries
1:48:36 additions: anatomical representation
1:51:40 additions: cz
1:54:14 Booklet with Essays

©ZKM Karlsruhe and Artists 1999, EMPAC 2022