Scholarly Writing + Publications

Ladenheim, Kate. “PillowNotes for Huang Yi’s Ink.” Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, published after event cancellation in system:go. 

Ladenheim, Kate. “Re-commit” DanceNotes, in press. 

Ladenheim, Kate. “The Sublime Grandeur of Inconsequential Death.” Essay. In The Routledge Companion on Performance and Technology, edited by Maaike Bleeker and Norah Zuniga Shaw. New York, NY: Routledge, in press.

Xin, Ying, Katherine H. Fisher, Kate Ladenheim, and Alan Winslow. “Interactivity as Embodied Engagement in Lamentation: Dancing the Archive.” In Companion of the the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp Companion ’25), Espoo, Finland: ACM, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1145/3714394.3756260  

Ladenheim, Kate, Mollye Bendell, and Timothy Kelly. “COMMIT!: Interactive Performance Reveals Social and Technological Mechanics of Control.”  In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing. Utrecht, NL: ACM, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658852.3659094. 

Peng, Siyuan, Kate Ladenheim, Snehesh Shrestha, and Cornelia Fermüller. 2024. “Generation of Novel Fall Animation with Configurable Attributes.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing, 1–6. Utrecht Netherlands: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3658852.3659087. 

Peng, Siyuan, Kate Ladenheim, Snehesh Shrestha, and Cornelia Fermüller. 2024. “Choreographing the Digital Canvas: A Machine Learning Approach to Artistic Performance.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.00054. 

Ladenheim, Kate, Amy LaViers, and Catherine Maguire. “Breathing with Robots: Notating Performer Strategy, Alongside Choreographer Intent and Audience Observation, in Breath-Driven Robotic Dance Performance.” In Modeling Visual Aesthetics, Emotion, and Artistic Style, edited by James Z. Wang and Jr. Adams Reginald B., 203–18. Springer International Publishing, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50269-9_12.

Ladenheim, Kate, and Amy LaViers. “Babyface: Performance and Installation Art Exploring the Feminine Ideal in Gendered Machines.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.576664.  

Ladenheim, Kate, Reika McNish, Wali Rizvi and Amy LaViers. 2020. "Live Dance Performance Investigating the Feminine Cyborg Metaphor with a Motion-activated Wearable Robot.” In Proceedings of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2020, pp. 243-251.