RAM Workshop
In 2016 dancers, artists, circus performers and choreographers experimented with RAM developed by YCAM from Japan. RAM uses motion capture sensors to create real-time visual feedback through virtual environments.
Image: Shamphat Photography
Made by
Akiko Takeshita
Akiko joined Watershed on a secondment from her role as Performing Arts & Technology Producer at Yamaguchi Centre for Arts and Media (YCAM).
Lisa May Thomas
Lisa May Thomas is a contemporary dance artist who has worked extensively with body-technology relations in performance-making practices
Phill Tew
Philip Tew is a curious blend of programmer and digital artist, leveraging skills gathered from an early age and honed in industry to create artworks that play with generative processing, physical modelling, real-time interactivity, and creativity itself.Chanti Hobbit
Chisato Minamimura
Chryssa Varna
Jess Thom
Joumana Mourad
Takayuki Ito
Yohei Miura
In 2016 dancers, artists, circus performers and choreographers attended a workshop at Watershed to experiment with the Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) developed by YCAM in Japan. RAM uses motion capture sensors to create real-time visual feedback through virtual environments.
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) is a project developed by YCAM that we feel particularly resonates with Watershed’s work, its community, and the wider dance and choreography sector in the UK. After initial discussions with creative practitioners, there was clearly a strong desire in the sector for an opportunity to explore the affordances of RAM.
With support from Daiwa Foundation and British Council we were able to bring RAM to the UK. In February 2016, we welcomed workshop participants chosen through an open call to work with Watershed and YCAM’s creative technologists and producers to start to explore RAM’s capabilities of developing new techniques of choreographing movement through new technologies dealing with motion data.
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) focuses on creating and shaping dance movement with real-time digital feedback. RAM Toolkit is a suite of tools designed specifically to capture dancers’ motion data, and to generate and operate a virtual environment that responds to movement to inspire and affect choreography. To find out more about RAM please visit YCAM’s website.
