fwd: Radiator and Digital Cultures Symposium on Performance, Dance, and Technology Art

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Radiator and Digital Cultures Symposium on 
Performance, Dance, and Technology Art

2 - 4 Dec 2005 Nottingham / Fri & Sat 10am  - 6.30pm / Sun 10am - 4pm



Theme



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 Schäfer, Trampoline) and the 
Digital Cultures Lab of Nottingham Trent 
University (Johannes Birringer).



Panel Topics



·           Performance in the Wild                                       

             City Theatre - Site Specificity - Audience Interaction



·           The Local and the Global

             Movement, Digitalization, Transmission



·            Network as Stage 


             Overcoming Distance - Remote 
Connections - Telematic Territories - Hacking the 
Map - New Wireless Initiatives



·           Dance and Science

             Capturing Dance - Visualization 
Technology - Wearable and Pervasive Computing in 
Dance and Interactive Design



·           Sometimes Later - Charade

             Private View - Arts Council England and BBC Artists? Commissions



·           A Description of the World as Though it was a Beautiful Place

             The Play With Augmented Reality - 
Mixed Reality - Gaming Structures as Performance 
Work



·           Digital Cultures, Performance and 
Dance - New Research Papers



·           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 Montréal

Thomas Dumke / Festspielhaus Hellerau

Erin Manning / SenseLab


DC Lab participants

Michèle Danjoux

Kirk Woolford

Kunihiko Matsuo

Nina Pope & Karen Guthrie - Sometime Later

Simon Pope - 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

Johannes Birringer / Nottingham Trent University

Details


Friday 2 - Saturday 3 December 2005 10am - 6.30pm

Sunday 4 December 2005 10am - 3pm

Powerhouse
Victoria Studio
Shakespeare Street
Nottingham
NG1 4FQ



Full weekend: £100 (concs. £70)

Single Day: £35 (concs. £20)



To book a place, please contact Nina on:
Radiator Festival
Broadway
14-18 Broad St.
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
Tel +44(0)115 840 9272
info at radiator-festival.org
www.radiator-festival.org



The Symposium is supported by Bonington Gallery, 
Future Factory and Nottingham Trent University, 
Creative Collaborations and Essex Dance. Radiator 
is supported by Arts Council England, EM Media 
and UK Film Council Lottery Funded.


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