Dr. Kate Sicchio
Dr. Kate Sicchio is a choreographer, media artist, and researcher whose work reimagines how bodies and technologies move together in performance. Her practice spans live coding, wearable systems, and choreorobotics, creating works where dancers and intelligent machines co‑generate choreography in real time. Her work has been presented internationally across performance, gallery, and festival contexts. Recent work includes at the Doha Design Biennale in Qatar, TheaterLab in New York City, and Theatre Deli in Sheffield, UK. Her research has been featured in publications such as The New York Times and Dance Magazine. She is currently Associate Professor of Dance and Media Technology at Virginia Commonwealth University.
talk :Scores, Systems, and Bodies
Choreography is often understood as the organization of movement, but it can also serve as a method for designing systems, interactions, and relationships. In this artist talk, choreographer and media artist Kate Sicchio presents a selection of projects that use choreography as both an artistic practice and a way of engaging with emerging technologies. Through performances, interactive systems, robotic collaborators, and computational experiments, she demonstrates how movement can become a form of programming and how code can become a material for artistic expression.
Drawing from works involving human-robot interaction, live coding, and her open-source choreographic platform p5.score, Sicchio explores what happens when agency is distributed across bodies, machines, and environments. Bringing together dance, media art, and software design, the talk considers how movement-based approaches can shape technological systems and offers new perspectives on participation, collaboration, and embodied knowledge in an increasingly technological world.
