Associate Professor, Dance
The Ohio State University
zuniga-shaw [dot] 1 [at] osu [dot] edu

Norah Zuniga Shaw is a choreographer and arts researcher currently working with William Forsythe and Maria Palazzi as Co-Creative Director for the interactive media project “Synchronous Objects” (http://synchronousobjects.osu.edu). Since its launch at the Wexner Center for the Arts in April 2009, “Synchronous Objects” has received numerous honors including “Best of Show-Interactive” and a “Judge’s Choice Award” at the Columbus Society for Communicating Arts (CSCA), a feature in Communication Arts Interactive Annual 16, finalist in the 2009 Adobe MAX Awards, and inclusion as a featured work in SIGGRAPH Information Aesthetics Showcase and ISEA 2010. Zuniga Shaw presents frequently on her creative research as an invited lecturer at venues in the United States and Europe including Spring Dance 09 Utrecht, Hebbel Theater Berlin, Sadler’s Wells London, Tanzkongress 09 Kampnagel Hamburg, PACT-Zollverein Essen, Cyberarts 08 Boston, Harvestworks NYC, and many others. She is a founding member of the EMMA Lab, a collective of artists and scientists concerned with real-time engagements between the body, site, and technology. Her research focuses on interdisciplinary engagements with embodied knowledge and the translation of choreographic information from dance to data to interactive visualizations. She is a published author on numerous topics and her recent artistic commissions include an interactive sound installation for ICMC Copenhagen with circus artist Jerome Thomas, three dances for television (WOSU-PBS), and performances for NANO at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Since 2004, she has been Director for Dance and Technology at The Ohio State University Department of Dance and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). Zuniga Shaw is currently working on a book about Synchronous Objects and the new methods in interdisciplinary practice-based research it required.