Mimi Yin is a multidisciplinarian working across code, choreography, sound and visual art. Her work exploits the literal-mindedness of computation to activate the human desire to comprehend and connect. Her research and performance works have been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Google, Center for Ballet and The Arts, Culture Hub, MaxMachina, and Martha Graham Dance Company among others. Mimi also co-runs Consent Lab, a Humanities collaboration devoted to developing new techniques that marry the scholarly practice of close reading and embodied encounter. Mimi teaches and directs graduate curriculum at ITP NYU Tisch.
“I am building a taxonomy of movement-based interactions to distill the atomic units of relation between bodies. If bodies have a language, what are its grammars?
Compared to text with its discrete units of meaning (words), reading bodies is a computational black hole. However, by focusing on the interaction between bodies we reduce the infinite dimensions of “what bodies contain” down to the few that are significant to how we “read” inter-body communication.
For this residency, I will focus on the parameters of timing and distance, using sound and video to model body interactions in a matrix of micro-choreographies.”