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Title: #Me Too - Shame
Contributor(s): Hewitt, Donna  (creator)orcid ; Mainsbridge, Mary (creator)
Publication Date: 2018-06-08
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/29099
Abstract: #Me Too - Shame is one of a number of musical compositions that responds to the 2017/2018 digital #Me Too campaign and the events that unfolded around the Harvey Weinstein scandal. The work explores the experiences and emotions of the victims and focusses on the prevalence of the feeling of shame. The work utilises texts and commentary from the #me too social media movement.
#Me Too - Shame is the first collaboration of two female artists Hewitt and Mainsbridge. Both artists work with gestural movement detection systems to devise musical performances for voice, electronics and the body. Hewitt works with her eMic and wearable controllers that detect arm and hand movements, while Mainsbridge has designed a system that detects whole body motion via the Kinect gaming controller. The #Me Too content provided powerful inspiration for two female artists to work with. The artists were interested in gender related content particularly given the collaboration itself being between two women working with technology which is historically a non-traditional field of practice for women. The composition itself utilises loops and repetition to drive home the recurring stories told by #Me Too victims.
Publication Type: Original Creative Works - Other
Source of Publication: v.Vivid Festival Music Program (2018)
Publisher: Vivid Music Festival
Place of Publication: Sydney, Australia
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 190406 Music Composition
190407 Music Performance
190205 Interactive Media
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 360302 Music composition and improvisation
360304 Music performance
360504 Interactive media
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280122 Expanding knowledge in creative arts and writing studies
Format: 5 minutes, 8 seconds. 2 performers.
HERDC Category Description: Z5 Original creative works - Other
Publisher/associated links: https://donnahewitt.net/me-two/
NTRO Venue: Performance Space, 107 Projects, Redfern
NTRO Location: Sydney, Australia
Type of Work: Audio Visual Electronic Music Composition/Performance
Original Performance Date: 2018-06-08
Appears in Collections:Original Creative Works - Other
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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