Lins Derry

Lins Derry is a choreographic designer. Her current research examines the body-data relationship from the interdisciplinary perspective of choreography, data representation, and human-computer interaction. She is curious about how performative bodies become information mediums through choreography, whether to make abstract data more sensorial and hence communicative as performance, or embodied data more legible and hence transferable to AI and other information systems. Relatedly, she is interested in how the body-medium is complicated by the subjective dweller who may affect the outcomes or very constitution of the data they are physically mediating. This has led her to experiment with designing choreographic interfaces aimed at increasing the kinetic and spatial interactivity between moving bodies and information systems, as well as with data embodiment, a method for translating datasets into performance scores (see Data Sensorium) or participatory experiences (see The Data Twist). Ultimately, these inquiries and projects ask: Given our physical indivisibility from our data-driven world, how can performance practice and theory help us to navigate the complexities of abstract information and the issues it produces, such as those pertaining to data representation, surveillance, and democratic engagement?