# Event Details - **Event Name**: Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm - **Event Description**: This lecture presents two recent collaborative artworks operating at the intersection of dance, virtual environments, and ai.About this EventWe will watch clips of the videos and performances and work-in-progress footage, discuss the technical and creative processes behind both pieces, and analyze how they reflect our current technological culture and society.Time Garden is a suite of 3D dance animations imagining a cybernetic future in which bodies, minds, and identities become fragmented across physical and digital spaces. We speculate: what myths will our new chimeric intelligences tell? What gods will they worship? What rituals of movement will they perform in a joyful or funereal act of familiarizing and refamiliarizing themselves with sensation? The presentation details the project's technical workflow: integrating movement artist Scotty Hardwig's motion capture data into the Unity game engine; mapping that movement onto avatars navigating virtual environments built from human anatomy by Zach Duer; and transmitting the avatar data to Max/MSP, where composer Charles Nichols maps it to musical parameters to manipulate a vocal score.Dances for Wormwood situates virtuality and artificial intelligence within live dance performance. At midnight, a dancer embarks upon a summoning using his webcam and witching herbs. He brings forth Wormwood, a creature-system that grows in power and desire, offering divine answers to the human condition. The piece tests the possibilities and limits of large language model artificial intelligence (LLM AI) in movement performance. In this lecture, we detail how the system generates poetic and literary interpretations of the movement it observes, functioning as a witness, collaborator, manipulator, and unstable oracle.This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is supported, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/orange/free-vmfa-time-garden-and-dances-for-wormwood-lectures/100001990982188321 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, artificial-intelligence, live-music, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Age Limit: all_ages - Duration: 1 hour - Location: The Arts Center in Orange - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Orange - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: The Arts Center in Orange - **lat**: 38.2455927 - **long**: -78.10988739999999 - **full address**: The Arts Center in Orange, 129 East Main Street, Orange, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/c12b7753d9a474f51d9633e71caa3d60b913a0e8624445401c828fe325d0c2dd-rimg-w1200-h600-dc030303-gmir.jpg?v=1780536964 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures being held? - **A:** Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures takes place on Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 05:00 pm to Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm at The Arts Center in Orange, 129 East Main Street, Orange, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures? - **A:** Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures is organized by The Arts Center in Orange. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Free VMFA Time Garden & Dances for Wormwood Lectures is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Orange, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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