Workshop Live Art Using New Technologies in Perfromance, Montevideo TBA-AMSU

[anna balint]

Workshop Live Art
Using new technologies in performance
26 - 31 August

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo / Time Based Arts in collaboration 
with Amsterdam- Maastricht Summer University
In this media saturated world, contemporary art practice is constantly expanding 
the use of technology. The workshop examines the historical and technological 
developments in performance arts. The course will be a creative and practical 
collaboration between performing and media artists, and will be contextualised 
by critical discussions of contemporary practice; video art as fine art practice, 
digital art & performance, interactive performance and time-based media.
The British artists group Blast Theory will help attendants 
to gain new access to history and technology which will allow them to move away from 
fixed images and media. In the evenings a special program is developed 
to further explore the immersion of different media in performance.
Blast Theory is a group of four artists based in London who 
make live events for theatres, clubs, galleries and the street. The groups work confronts 
a media saturated world in which popular culture rules. It uses video 
and computers to ask questions about the ideologies present in the information 
that envelops us. Founded on a belief in collective work and an openness about 
creativity Blast Theory collaborates with a wide range of creative people: from 
DJs to dancers, from CDROM designers to pop promo directors. 
http://www.blasttheory.co.uk

FEE: 550,- euro (including day and evening programme at Netherlands 
Media Art Institute, admission to cultural evening programme of AMSU and daily 
lunch & refreshments.)

SCHOLARSHIPS: There is a limited number of scholarships available
For more information http://www.montevideo.nl or http://www.amsu.edu
Interview by Annet Dekker with Blast Theory see: http://www.montevideo.nl