At the Function (I Shake My Ass)

Dance Dance Revolution is an arcade game that challenges players to dance in time with rhythmic cues on screen. Recently, a group of dancer-hackers reworked the game to run faster and longer than ever before. To succeed in this new version, the players bodies must remain entirely still save the rapid micro-movements of the feet. Connor Cook views the optimized movements of the dancers as an allegory for contemporary technoculture under capitalism, organised around efficiency, standardisation and submission. At the Function (I Shake My Ass) reappropriates the logic of the dance game to articulate an alternative relationship to technology that is open, indeterminate and playful.