Diego Maranan is an educator working in the fields of dance. Past work includes research in translating dance notation into computer animation with Tom Calvert (Credo Interactive, Canada) and Ilene Fox (Dance Notation Bureau, USA); investigating qualities of human movement in SecondLife.com avatars with choreographer Sara Coffin as Dance Lab residents at the Scotiabank Dance Centre (Canada); and his continuing development of a framework for licensing and sharing choreography under a Creative Commons license, which he presented at the 2007 New Forms Festival in Vancouver. He has worked with artists professionally in the field of information technology on both sides of the Pacific and has conducted workshops in Canada, Japan and the Philippines. Diego received his BSc in Contemporary Dance and Computing Science from Simon Fraser University (Canada) in 2005 ad has received several academic distinctions, including a four-year Gordon Shrum International Scholarship at Simon Fraser, a University of the Philippines Oblation Award offer, a Canadian Information Processing Student of the Year nomination, and a 2006 Holy Body Tattoo Emerging Artist for British Columbia honourable mention. The Invisible, Visible is the second in a series of w.o.p Residency. Talk starts at 7 PM.
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