Digital Body: Mind, Tension, and Perception with Alexander Whitley
From See See by Ceci by Dr. Cecilia Ponce Rivera
April 14, 2026 · 1h 26m · Season 4 · Episode 5
About this episode
This episode features a conversation with choreographer Alexander Whitley about the intersection of movement, technology, and consciousness.
Join us for a fascinating conversation with choreographer Alexander Whitley about how movement shapes consciousness and how technology transforms our perception of the world and of ourselves. In this episode, Alexander shares his vision of the body as a site of knowing and self-making. He calls it “auto-fabrication”, meaning we are continually creating ourselves through moving, sensing, perceiving, a process, he asserts, where there is creativity. As Artistic Director of the Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Alexander places live bodies in dialogue with digital systems, staging the tension between our physical, embodied existence and the disembodied way of experiencing the world that modern technologies introduce. He explores how our experience becomes fractured, distributed spatially and temporally, and how social media creates what he calls “jittery, schizoid intervals,” a constant interruption that breaks the flow of attention into fragmented, arrhythmic patterns. In this episode, he walks us through his productions: Antibody, on the transhumanist desire to transcend the body; Overflow, on the emotional impact of social media; Future Rites, a VR reimagining of The Rite of…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Cecilia Ponce Rivera
Guest: Alexander Whitley
Topics covered
- movement and consciousness
- technology and perception
- auto-fabrication
- social media impact
- digital systems in dance
- transhumanism
- fragmented experience
Keywords
- choreography
- digital technology
- social media
- transhumanism
- auto-fabrication
- consciousness
- dance
- perception
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Alexander Whitley Dance Company
Books & works: Antibody, Overflow, Future Rites, Mirror
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