This is the website of the artistic research project Social d[ist]ancing: the development of a networked artistic practice out of confinement whose aim is to develop effective tools and strategies for networked co-creation. Led by Rhythmics Prof. Hanne Pilgrim and co-creation researcher Adrián Artacho, the project started in September 2020 with six graduate rhythmics students as participants, dance scholar Mariama Diagne, and the support of the Artistic Research Center (ARC) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Structured around six case studies –each featuring a different mode of intermedial transformation– and making only use of freely available software as a principle, the project has so far yielded useful insights on the limitations of the medium, while at the same time raising questions about networked artistic practice: In which ways –if any– can ”virtual rehearsals” be though of as equivalent to traditional (co-located) ones? What is unique about this mode of collaboration that is relevant for artistic practice? In which ways does this circumstance determine the artistic output? and most crucially, how can the limitations of the medium be reframed to add value to the rhythmics practice?
