Movement 
Machines

Movement Machines is an interactive, research-based web platform that explores the dynamic relationship between dance, media, and archival practice. Conceived as a space for artistic inquiry, it invites users to engage with the history of movement through digital and multimodal formats — including videos, photographs, dance notation, interviews, and experimental texts.

At the heart of the project are five “micro-studies,” each dedicated to a historical dancer or choreographer whose work has often remained at the margins of mainstream dance history. These studies reimagine archival materials not as static records but as movement machines — living generators of new artistic possibilities. By reinterpreting fragments from the past, the platform shows how choreography, documentation, and digital media continuously influence and reshape one another.

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Developed under the direction of Rose Breuss and supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Movement Machines forms part of a broader inquiry into digital transformation in the arts. It bridges artistic research, media theory, and performance studies to question how bodily movement, mechanical logic, and digital technologies intersect.

Through its immersive design and participatory approach, the platform encourages visitors to explore, reflect, and interact — turning archival material into a site of creative activation rather than preservation alone. Ultimately, Movement Machines offers both a scholarly and sensorial experience, illuminating how movement and media co-create meaning across time.