Dancing in the Cloud: Design for Dance Technology Collectives

Cloud systems provide infrastructure, platforms and software applications as service. Taking a design based approach that develops how these services can become central for developing dance technology collectives, a one day technical workshop on how to deploy a 3D Virtual World on the OpenStack Cloud system was created and presented. The workshop ran successfully on personal computers. However, performance of the deployed cloud services was inadequate. Thus connecting disparate members of a collective by adding their personal computers as nodes of the Cloud system was rejected. An alternative approach that deploys fit for purpose computers on fast network is being considered for the next design cycle. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.4.3 [Organizational Impacts] Computer-supported collaborative work