MALWARE 2023 - Presented at University of Melbourne - VCA for Pixel Sync 
Choreography/Dancers: Indiana Gordon, Kamryn McRae, Opal Russall
Composition: Racheal Hobbs 
Images: Anny Ding 

Artist Statement:

Malware is an interactive digital dance installation created collaboratively by Indiana Gordon, Opal Russell and Kamryn McRae. Malware features Isadora software which was used to construct the digital performance landscape which the dancers encounter. The sound score is a minimalist dark, horror inspired piece designed by composer Racheal Hobbs that reinforces the terror of cyber abuse type, doxxing. 

The work focuses on the concepts of doxing, online harassment and digital spyware centralising the notion of surveillance. The work aims to depict the harsh reality of public exposure as a result of doxing, and the consequential shift between the private and public space. Within the piece there is a consistent focus on the idea of exposure looking into the physical embodiment of exposing others versus being exposed.

We have embodied this through open shapes and closed shapes and specific gestural material such as the hand holding onto our jaw and forcibly moving the head from side to side. These movement motifs were built from words associated with the emotional experience of being doxxed, some of the words that we drew inspiration from are identity, harassment, exposure, malicious, shame, forcible and weaponizing. We have utilised these choreographic techniques to interpret the subjection and submission to the digital world such as space. We considered how in this day and age we are always in a vulnerable position due to the information we are required to put onto digital platforms and lack of control over what is done with that information.