MODINA: card.glitches.me/workshop

card.glitches.me is a workshop about a performative practice to create scenes and characters for a performance. The workshop is led by Naoto Hieda who is a researcher and an artist from Japan based in Estonia as a junior research fellow and a PhD student at Tallinn University.

How Naoto describes the workshop:

In 2022, I started making my own cards – Naoto’s cards – as a way to collect childhood memories, to document places I visited, and to keep a personal diary. Over time, this practice evolved into a performative practice to create scenes and characters for my performances. In this workshop, I invite you to explore the card making process together.

You will receive a set of physical cards – each card is a blank space for you to capture thoughts, ideas, memories or emotions. It also comes with a unique QR code – scan it to access a website where you can upload it (or not) so the card becomes a webpage to be shared with others.

These cards are multipurpose – you can use them for noting movements, generating new ideas, illustrating scenes, and much more. But at the same time, you need to distill your idea to fit it into a small format, just like writing a haiku. During the workshop, I will give inputs on how I have been using them. But most importantly, I’m interested in exploring how we can collectively generate knowledge and inspire each other in a collective manner. The objective of the project is to foster a non-hierarchical way of knowledge making and sharing in dance by empowering ourselves with the potential of the Internet beyond the studios.

You can access https://card.glitches.me to have a glimpse of the cards made by me and my friends!

Naoto Hieda is a researcher and an artist from Japan based in Estonia as a junior research fellow and a PhD student at Tallinn University. With a background in engineering (B.Eng. at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan and M.Eng. at McGill University, Canada), they completed Diplom II (master’s equivalent) with distinction from the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany and work internationally for theater productions and in the visual arts. In their artistic work, they question the productive qualities of coding and speculate on new forms, post-coding through neuroqueerness, decolonization and live coding. Their workshop has been recently presented at Trafó (Hungary), LACE Symposium / ImPulsTanz, and Symposium of the Society for Dance Research (Austria). They performed at venues including Kino Šiška (Slovenia), CNDB (Romania) and STL (Estonia).