YOMO/Intermedia

The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) at Brown University will present YOMO/Intermedia, an experimental dance, music, media and visual art performance, at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University on April 1 and 2, 2019. YOMO/Intermedia is part of Your Ocean, My Ocean (YOMO), a series of art and technology projects produced by University of California Irvine (UCI) in collaboration with the BAI and the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The presentation at Brown will be an expanded version of YOMO/Intermedia that premiered at UCI’s Contemporary Arts Center in February.

Breaking down traditional boundaries between disciplines, the 80-minute performance features dancers and musicians onstage with a larger, virtual cast appearing in video projections integrated with footage of ocean and coastal locations. A related series of animated films also are presented in a multi-channel video installation. Together, they evoke the precarious natural beauty of oceans and the threats posed by environmental degradation.