Associate Professor of Dance & Media Arts
Director, UCI Dance Film Festival
Director, Digital Arts Minor
Dance Film, Interactive Media, Telematic Performance, Motion Capture, Digital Arts
John Crawford is a media artist, interactive performance director,
technology developer and interaction designer. Intersecting software
with digital media and theatrical performance, he uses computers and
video to create painterly animations and motion graphics closely
integrated with dance. His projects explore embodied interaction,
combining processed video and digital animation with motion capture,
real-time motion tracking, image processing and telematic performance.
He originated the Active Space concept in 1994 to describe his
interactive performance systems that produce visuals and music in
response to movement.
His work has been performed and exhibited across North America and in
Asia, Europe and South America. He is the creator of Dance-IT, an
interactive media/dance installation, and is directing Threads and
Trajectories, a dance/media performance with Beijing Modern Dance
Company. Other recent work includes a new version of Donald McKayle's
Angelitos Negros, reinterpreted for the screen; the hip-hop
dance/media performance Something to Do with Love, with Rennie
Harris; the telematic dance/media performances Songs at a
Distance and Ootoo plus the Urban Fabric series of
interactive dance/media performances in Beijing, Paris and Prague.
He is Associate Professor of Dance and Media Arts at University of
California Irvine, where he directs the annual UCI Dance Film Festival
and the campus-wide Digital Arts Minor program. His course offerings
include dance filmmaking, motion capture animation, interactive media,
telematic performance and digital arts. As a software developer, his
credits include projects for Adobe, Microsoft and other companies. As a
theatre director and actor, he studied with Sanford Meisner at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York.
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