Personal details
- Name
- Dr Steph Hutchison
- Position(s)
- Lecturer
Creative Industries Faculty,
School of Creative Practice,
Dance - Discipline *
- Performing Arts and Creative Writing
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 5688
- s2.hutchison@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
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Master of Arts (Deakin University)
- Keywords
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dance, technology, improvisation, physical thinking prototypes, choreography, motion capture, robotics, artificial intelligence
Biography
Dr Steph Hutchison is a choreographer, performer and artist-researcher. At the Queensland University of Technology, Steph is a dance academic and leader for the Experimental Creative Practice research theme of the Creative Lab, and co-leader for the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy. Her practice is driven by dance with a focus on endurance, extreme physicality and improvisation, and collaborations with motion capture, animation, robotics, haptics, and artificially intelligent performance agents. She has collaborated extensively on art, research, and industry projects with Deakin Motion.lab and John McCormick. Steph’s current research builds upon her Physical Thinking Prototypes establishing processes, methods and systems for constructing dancing bodies and ways of thinking in the digital age. Physical Thinking Prototypes also provide a methodology for calibrating participants systems within the Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy at QUT – enabling, opening and creating potentials via embodied practice and experience.
Steph completed her PhD research at Deakin Motion.lab – meta: discourses from dancers inside action machines.
Teaching
Steph’s teaching experience spans professional, community, tertiary, secondary and primary settings. She has been an Artist in Residence for Arts Centre Melbourne and a guest/sessional teacher for Deakin University, Dancehouse, National Theatre Ballet School, and National Institute of Circus Arts, among others.
At QUT Steph currently designs, facilitates, mentors, coordinates or teaches into:
- Ars Electronica Futurelab Academy
- Dance and Technology
- Dance Composition
- Screen Dance
- Dance Technique
- Dance Performance
- Foundations in Improvisation and Choreographic Practice
Publications
- Hutchison S, (2014) meta, Presented at: meta
- McCormick J, Hutchison S, (2014) Emergence, Presented at: Emergence
- Hutchison S, Vincs K, (2013) Dancing in suits: a performer's perspective on the collaborative exchange between self, body, motion capture, animation and audience, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2013 p1-4
- McCormick J, Nash A, Hutchison S, (2018) Eve of Dust, Presented at: Eve of Dust
- McCormick J, Hossny M, Fielding M, Mullins J, Vincent J, Hossny M, Vincs K, Mohamed S, Nahavandi S, Creighton D, Hutchison S, (2020) Feels like dancing: Motion capture driven haptic interface as an added sensory experience for dance viewing, Leonardo p45-49
- Vincs K, Bennett A, McCormick J, Vincent J, Hutchison S, (2014) Skin to skin: Performing augmented reality, Augmented reality art: From an emerging technology to a novel creative medium p161-174
- McCormick J, Hutchison S, Nash A, Vincs K, Nahavandi S, Creighton D, (2015) Learning to replace a human: A virtual performing agent, The International Journal of Virtual Reality p18-22
- McCormick J, Vincs K, Nahavandi S, Creighton D, Hutchison S, (2014) Teaching a digital performing agent: Artificial neural network and hidden Markov model for recognising and performing dance movement, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Movement and Computing p70-75
- McCormick J, Hutchison S, Vincent J, Vincs K, (2016) Collaborative dance between robot and human, Presented at: Workshop on Artistically Skilled Robots as part of 2016 IEEE/RSJ IROS Conference p1-3
- Hutchison S, (2013) Work, Presented at: Work
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Supervision
Current supervisions
- A STRUCTURED DIGITISATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE CONSERVATION AND ARCHIVING OF TRADITIONAL SARAWAK IBAN DANCE USING MOTION CAPTURE
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Staché daCosta, Mr Sorin Oancea - The search for authentic digital performance: a mixed methods study of Australian theatre and dance
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Gene Moyle