DIGITAL CULTURES LAB(international dance and technology meeting)

[Yukihiko Yoshida]

Hi list ---

This is conference on the subject,dance and technologies.
I am also working as Liason in this conference (see the webpage)
 
Warmest Regards,

Yikihiko YOSHIDA

Related Webpage
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/performance_research/birringer/idat.htm

DIGITAL CULTURES LAB

(international dance and technology meeting)

28 November - 4 December, 2005
Hosted by Nottingham Trent University's Future Factory in cooperation 
with Radiator Festival for New Technology Art,
essexdance and other UK partners.

Coordinator: Johannes Birringer


Description

Digital technologies challenge our techniques of dance and 
performance, customary perceptions of culturally embodied knowledge 
and sensory processing, and assumptions about choreography, 
composition, and the relations between maker, performer, and audience.

The central aim of this international lab meeting in 
November-December 2005 is to take stock of the evolution of 
contemporary dance (technology), and develop a new understanding of 
interaction design and physical computing in the dance and 
performance field through critical engagement with the consequences 
of interactivity on contemporary digital cultures.

We shall ask: whether interactive performance has become an instance 
of collaborative culture, beyond aesthetic conventions of concert 
dance, and how interactive media blur distinctions between performer 
and audience/user, between performance, play, ritual, game and 
utility.

Western knowledge of digital interactivity is examined through 
non-Western concepts of interaction. Non-western articulations of the 
digital provide a framework for fresh interpretations of 
participatory design. The cultural questions in this research lab 
derive from observations of multi-level collaborations between 
artistic, theatrical, technological, and research partners from 
different cultural backgrounds and locations, as well as from lab 
experiments with divergent perceptions of the sensory processing of 
the digital.

The theoretical scope of the project encompasses an analysis of 
"digital cultures" in interactive dance based on the findings of an 
international and cross-cultural lab with the participation of 20 or 
25 distinguished choreographers, composers, performance and media 
artists, programmers, and designers. The lab workshop takes place at 
Nottingham Trent University over a period of one week and is closed 
to the general public.

The weekend conference and exhibition events are open to all.

Cross-cultural perspectives and digital art are the focus of the 
concluding Public Roundtables and Colloquium to be held at this 
confernece (Friday through Sunday, December 2-4, 2005).

Commissions for new work will be announced, and these will be on 
display throughout the week. The colloquium is organized in 
collaboration with the Radiator Festival for New Technology Art. If 
you wish to make a presentation on the subject of the Lab during the 
conference, please send us a proposal.

johannes.birringer at ntu.ac.uk
Live Art - Digital Research
Nottingham Trent University
Victoria Studios - Shakespeare Street
Nottingham NG1 4FQ UK
http://art.ntu.ac.uk/performance_research/birringer/idat.htm