Presenter

Shannon Cuykendall (PhD) is a transdisciplinary artist and scholar working across dance, interaction design, and cognitive science. Shannon’s interactive work explores how the use of lo-fi, accessible mobile technologies can create fewer barriers between performer and the technology. She seeks to design opportunities for audiences to engage kinesthetically in the joy of movement. Her choreography and interactive installations have been performed in Australia, Canada, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Her film, Floating Departures (2021), has been screened internationally. Completed degrees: Phd (Simon Fraser University), MFA in Dance (UC Irvine), BFA in Ballet Pedagogy (University of Oklahoma).