MOCO'26 - Open Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Movement and Computing

In the fields of neurocomputational and movement-based research, the concept of health is increasingly operationalized through data, including neural patterns, kinematic signatures, and recovery curves. Wearables and motion-tracking systems hold great promise in providing insights into physical and cognitive health. However, it should be noted that such systems also impose thresholds of inclusion, determining which bodies are measurable and whose movements are deemed expressive, curative, or valid. As neuroscience meets computer science and the arts, it is essential to question the role of these tools in shaping our understanding of what constitutes a healthy body or mind.
Considering this, a reframing of health as emergent, relational and performative is required, drawing upon critical post-humanist theory, embodied cognition, and artistic research. Applications in dance, interactive installations, and neuroaesthetic interfaces can model alternative health paradigms. By rethinking movement not merely as data but as a lived and expressive phenomenon, new interdisciplinary possibilities for designing systems that reflect diverse and situated ways of being in The Pink of Health can be opened.
This MOCO’26 conference proposes to critically examine how health, as both concept and computational output, participates in technocultural narratives that risk reinforcing normative, performance-driven ideals. Movement technologies, especially in arts-based applications, have the potential to open space for alternative modes of vitality or discomfort that challenge prevailing definitions of health. During this 10th edition, authors are invited you to share their reflections on how their research reimagine health in movement and data/computer science, or artistic practice, not as fixed optimisation, but as fluid, plural and performative.