This three day international symposium aims to bring into focus artistic practices of live performance that make use of digital technology in the form of lens-based, networked or locative media. Due to the abundance and accessibility of previously unaffordable technologies, new possibilities have been experimented with and new practice has developed. Real time transmission of observable, transcodable data and the ability of extending the reach of one’s hand across the globe have created entirely new stages on which artists can play. At the same time, new techniques have extended body perception through the sensory apparatus of the computer creating new physicalities to explore.
With this the simultaneity of space has evaporated and so performer and audience can be separated by day and night, by outside and inside, by mountains of geographic data. On a global stage, artists from different geographies can enter transcontinental collaborations raising the question of how the digitisation of the arts has transformed cultural traditions and practices. The symposium will bring together leading practitioners, developers, scientists and theorists from the disciplines that make up new media performance including live art, locative and pervasive media, telematics, performance and dance, wearable, sensor based and cybernetic technologies.
The symposium is a collaboration between the Radiator Festival for New Technology Art (Miles Chalcraft and Anette Sch=E4fer, Trampoline) and the Digital Cultures Lab of Nottingham Trent University (Johannes Birringer).
Panel Topics
Performance in the Wild City Theatre – Site Specific
The Local and the Global Movement, Digitalization, Transmission
Network as Stage
Dance and Science
Capturing Dance – Visualization Technology
Wearable and Pervasive Computing in Dance and Interactive Design
The Play With Augmented Reality – Mixed Reality
Gaming Structures as Performance Work
Digital Cultures, Performance and Dance
Closing Panel: Digital Cultures & Technology Art
Speakers
Matt Adams / Blast Theory
Simon Will / Gob Squad
Michelle Teran
Stefan Kaegi / Rimini Protokoll
Sophia Lycouris / Nottingham Trent University
Sally Jane Norman / Culture Lab, University of Newcastle
Sher Doruff / deWaag Society
Thecla Schiphorst / Simon Fraser University
Margarita Bali / Nucleodanza
Keiko Courdy / Kyoto University of Art & Design
Adam Hyde / Radioqualia
Heath Bunting / Irational
Rachel Jacobs / Active Ingredient
John Mitchell / Arizona State University
Hellen Sky / Company in Space
Sita Popat / University of Leeds
Sue Thomas / De Montfort University
Simon Biggs & Sue Hawksley / Sheffield Hallam University
Marlon Barrios Solano
Ghislaine Boddington / Future Physical
Igor Stromajer
Chris Salter / Hexagram Montr=E9al
Thomas Dumke / Festspielhaus Hellerau
DC Lab participants
Yacov Sharir / University of Texas-Austin
Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie – Sometime Later
Simon Pope =96 Charade
Mark Waugh / Arts Council England
Tom McCarthy / General Secretary, INS
Sarah Cook / CRUMB
Matt Watkins / Active Ingredient
Cliff Randell / University of Bristol
Christian Nold
Jen Southern / Digital Research Unit, University of Huddersfield
Nuno Sacramento / University of Dundee
Richard Brown
Steve Benford / Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham
Aylin Kalem / TECHNE Festival Instanbul
Ivani Santana / University of Bahia
Isabel Valverde
Ran Hyman / Simon Fraser University
Stamatia Portanova
Philippe Baudelot / Monaco Dance Forum
Sue Broadhurst / Brunel University
Armando Menicacci / Mediadanse Paris
Aylin Kalem Iscen / Techne Festival Istanbul
Beryl Graham / CRUMB
Henry Daniel / TRANSNET
Mine Kaylan / University of Brighton
Nuno Sacramento / University of Dundee
Philippe Baudelot / Monaco Dance Forum
Zhen Xin / HART Cafe Bejiing
Johannes Birringer / Nottingham Trent University