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Action Coding
2015-2017

Installation, Performance, Video
With David Sheinkopf, Gene Kogan, Morgan Refakis, Caitlin Sikora, and Ramsey Nassar
Kinect, PC, Mac
2015-2017



Action Coding challenges systemic biases of software development by inserting the body as an input device into an increasingly disembodied system. It is a speculative project concerned with the future of the body in a digital world. It is also working system consisting of open-source machine learning software and Kinect that translates physical input into digital output within a wide variety of coding environments.
Action Coding installed in the solo exhibition “Easy Is Not A Concept,” at Eyebeam, Industry City, Brooklyn, 2016
The Kinect2Gesture interface, designed by Gene Kogan, during a training performed by Morgan Refakis





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Nancy Nowacek artist is a research-based artist, designer, and educator working in visual art, public art, social practice, and socially-engaged contexts.