Spotlight Series: Bodystorming: Scientific Modeling and Artmaking within Cancer Research

Event Date and Time
Thursday, Feb 16, 2023
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Event Location
Online & Northrop, Best Buy Theater
FREE and Open to the Public (Registration Requested)

Professional captioning provided
This event will be recorded
 

Institute for Advanced Study, Northrop, and University Honors Program Present

Carl Flink: Director of Dance & Nadine Jette Sween Professor of Dance, University of Minnesota & Artistic Director, Black Label Movement
David Odde: Bakken Professor for Engineering in Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota
Moderated by Michael Corey: Geospatial, Technical, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice

Bodystorming is a tool created by Carl Flink of Black Label Movement and David Odde’s biomedical engineering lab in their ongoing decades-long collaboration. Bodystorming reframes how humans interact with scientific concepts, promoting deep participation from patients, caregivers, and clinicians, bringing humanity and caring into the process, and including voices not typically heard in this type of research. Using choreographic techniques, Bodystorming provides scientists with a highly flexible modeling system to inform their research and complement more traditional software-based models. It also creates a fertile landscape for inspiring movement and choreographic concepts. This event will include a Bodystorming practice, in which participants can participate in person or online, as well as conversation about the process and time for questions.