{"id":2292,"date":"2013-04-27T12:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T16:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/l2ork.bukvic.net\/main\/?page_id=2292"},"modified":"2020-08-20T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T18:47:43","slug":"what-is-l2ork","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/l2ork.bukvic.net\/main\/what-is-l2ork\/","title":{"rendered":"What is L2Ork?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A contemporary ensemble L2Ork explores the power of gesture, human-computer interaction, and the multidimensionality of arts, to build and strengthen physical and virtual communities of 21st century creatives.<\/div>\n
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Ugh, I didn’t get that. So, L2Ork is…?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
(the 1,000 ft. version)<\/div>\n
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Named as one of the top six national transdisciplinary exemplars (a2ru<\/a>, 2015), and one of the top eight research projects at Virginia Tech (DCist<\/a>, 2014), a contemporary intermedia ensemble Linux Laptop Orchestra (L2Ork) [pronounced as lork] mixes traditional orchestra with increasingly accessible human-computer interaction technologies for the purpose of exploring expressive power of gesture, communal interaction, discipline-agnostic environment, and the multidimensionality of arts.<\/p>\n

L2Ork, founded by Dr. Ivica Ico Bukvic in May 2009, is part of the interdisciplinary initiative by the Virginia Tech Digital Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio (DISIS) and the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT). As the world\u2019s first Linux-based laptop orchestra incorporating extensive study of gesture and Taiji (Tai Chi) choreography L2Ork offers optimal infrastructure for creative research at minimal cost. By providing a seamless integration of arts and sciences it is in part designed to provide an integrative approach to STEM, Arts, and Design, with particular focus on K-12 education and Maker-like initiatives.<\/p>\n

Since its inception, L2Ork has helped start seven laptop orchestras in North and South Americas, most of which rely heavily on its affordable design. L2Ork’s infrastructural backbone, pd-l2ork, a Pure-Data variant with its unique K-12 learning module has been utilized in over half-dozen K-12 Maker workshops, including a Raspberry Pi Orchestra summer gifted program introduced in 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If you would still like to learn more (as in 1 ft. version), please visit the No, Really, What is L2Ork?<\/a> page.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(the 30,000 ft. version) A contemporary ensemble L2Ork explores the power of gesture, human-computer interaction, and the multidimensionality of arts, to build and strengthen physical and virtual communities of 21st century creatives.     Ugh, I didn’t get that. So, L2Ork is…? (the 1,000 ft. version) Named as one of the top six national transdisciplinary<\/p>\n

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