ROXANA BARBA

In my center, a cyborg seed (2024) is Roxana Barba’s live interactive performance, exploring questions related to the future, divination, and transformation. Inspired by the Peruvian Pallar Moche — an ancestral black and white “oracle bean” — and the human body in the post-human age, this work deals with the organic, the algorithmic, and the divine. 

Immersed in five channels of video created with computer graphics, motion-capture performance, and AI-generated imagery and sound, two performers explore the cyborg seed-body, questioning how we define technology in relation to mortality and transcendence.

‍In my center, a cyborg seed is one of six 2022 Knight New Works and a recipient of a 2024 NALAC Fund for the Arts grant. Technical support by MadLabs. Space rehearsal support by Miami Light Project, Koubek Center and Inkub8.

PRESS - At Mad Arts, Contemporary Dance Weaves Ancestry, Technology by Julie Landry Laviolette

Credits

Created by Roxana Barba

Performers: Lize-Lotte Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto

Music and sound: Carlos Dominiguez 

Set construction: Claudio Marcotulli, Lili(ana) and Sterling Rock 

Programmer: Rodrigo Arcaya3D Animation: David Correa

Touch Designer animation: Antonia Hinestroza

Original costume design: Lisu Vega 

Lighting Designer: Ana Maria Morales 

Stage Manager: Dario Feal

MADArts, Dania Beach, FL

Performers: Lize Lotte-Pitlo, Britney Tokumoto; composer: Carlos Dominguez; programmer: Rodrigo Arcaya; visual artists: Freddy Jouwayed, Claudio Marcotulli

With the support of a 2022 Knight New Work we tested ideas, engaging in trial and error, and produced generative structures connecting movement, sound and image in new and exiting ways. With technical assistance from MADArts’ MadLabs, our team also explored motion capture technology, AI sound loops generated from the performers’ breath and sound sensors.