About Me (Fran Hatt)
January 23, 2007 by franhatt
I’ve set up this blog to help me keep track of my collaborative practices unit on the MADP (Master of Arts Digital Practices) course at NSAD (Norwich School of Art and Design).
My main project on this course has been a MaxMSP Patch that tracks the motion of dancers in a space and uses the information to patterns (also generated within the programme) and project them back onto the dance floor. In essence making an interactive dance floor.
Other projects I have worked on during the course have been one to do with the extinction of languages, which culminated in an e-mail campaign with a visual representation on a website (no-longer active) and another thinking about natural rhythms which resulted in some dance films.
A little about me…
I’m interested in tango, art, design and music.
I studied for my Ba(hons) Graphic Design at Cumbria College of Art, specializing in design for the moving image, then went to work at Anglia TV, first as an assistant editor then as a graphic designer for news graphics and regional programming.
I’ve danced since I was a child, studying ballet, tap & modern from the age of about 5 until I was 16. I stopped then for a while, getting interested in Martial Arts whilst at Art College, but returned to dancing when I started working; first Salsa, then modern Jive, and for the last 5 years Argentine Tango.
I also studied music from a young age, learning to play the piano from my mother who was a music teacher, then Flute and music theory when I was older at a Saturday music school. I now play in a tango trio, making music to dance to.
Programming and digital practices are means to an artistic end for me. I wouldn’t say I feel natural learning and using programming languages, setting up my lap top as a server (I’m not even sure that’s what I am doing!) but modern technologies are exciting & powerful tools that really need to be exploited, and I really need to learn how to do just that.
Hi Fran, like the blog.. a lot. Think i’d like a lot of help from you to set one up for myself… urgently.. please help!
Hi Rob,
Sure, let’s have a coffee and sort it out. We can arrange later.
hi fran, i think setting up a blog is a great idea to get some feedback about your work and recent projects. i like yours! but i really have no idea how to do one… we people who did not get into techonology “on time” feel utterly backward in an annoyingly permanent sort of way…
hey, I only just learned how to do this a couple of weeks ago! I’ll send you an invite from wordpress to set up an account.
http://motionographer.com/
Hi Phran,
Did you lie to me about the spelling of your name? This makes me wonder what else on here is lies…
Love kira
Hy, great work! why not post it at:
http://tangohybridfusion.blogspot.com/
This blog aim to create a meeting point for all dance practitioners incorporating Tango in their work/s and anybody interested in this hybrid discussion/s.
I hope it will converge us all to gather momentum and inspiration….
best, Adriana