Hummingbirds and Hamburgers is a participatory performance and research collaboration between artist Christine Ellison (IRE/UK), video designer, Erato Tzavara (UK/GR), and computer scientist, Nicholas Ward (IRE). We work with dancers, choreographers, musicians and different communities of performers to embody the actions embedded in screen-based interfaces and to think about how the symbols and signs of our devices are informing how we move through space and time: the user interface is re-imagined as a score, that instructs and records our actions.
The project has been supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by the University of Reading, University of Limerick, University of the Arts, Zurich, Onassis-Stegi Outward Turn (Athens) and The Elephant Trust (UK).