Dan Deacon Shares "Meme Generator" Video, Interactive Game

Earlier this year, Dan Deacon released the Gliss Riffer LP. Now, he’s put out a new video for “Meme Generator” featuring four choreographed performance art sequences. It’s accompanied by an interactive game based on the routines. Watch the Monica Mirabile-directed video below, and play the game on Deacon’s website.

Speaking about the collaboration in a press release, Mirabile said:

“Meme Generator is a game of programmed choreography. The players are downloaded into a digital world and asked to play the game of semiotic codes interacting with the “house”. A few years ago Dan and I decided to collaborate on a video that I was making with my own performance art collaboration (FLUCT). That video is set in a living room which looped suburban leisure choreography created by the glitch of being physically effected by technology. The inspiration for this video has been an extension of the way our bodies are programmed by the worlds we live. In the music video, four choreographers created four dances in a liminal house. I gave no rules, just asked for a response derived from the choreographers own relationship to the “program.” The program being the familiar space of the house. I’m most directly inspired by the choreography of the people that surround me, as we are all affected by a similar marketed reality. We all play the game.”

Read our interview with Deacon from 2012.

Watch Dan Deacon perform at 285 Kent on Pitchfork.tv:

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