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Laban International Courses Summer School
24 July 1999 to August 1, 1999
Eastbourne, UK - University of Brighton
Ivy Cottage, Clockhouse Lane East
Egham
Surrey TW20 8PF
Info/Reservations: 01784 433480
Tickets: from £250 half boardWebsite for annual dance/movement course running since 1942. Based on the work of Rudolph Laban. 24/7/99 to 1/8/99. Eastbourne, UK. http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/09/0099b000.htm
email: laban.international@virgin.net
website: http://freespace.virgin.net/mark.thornton/
MINIMALLY INVASIVE
2nd of June 99 - 19.30
Theater Vorpommern
Anklamer Strasse 106
Siemens Kulturprogramm - Tel. (0 89) 23 43 35 94
17489 Greifswald - GERMANY
Info/Reservations: (0 38 34) 57 22 48
Tickets:"Minimally Invasive" by Paulo Henrique Performers & Co-creatores: Marion Ballester, Dominik Borucki, Paulo Henrique, Jack Shambin. Choreogrpher Assistence: Christine D¥Andres Live video mix & Set Design: Catarina Campino Photography: Robert Flynt Lighting: Cristina Piedade Original Sound Score & Sound design: Rui Leit"o
email: ip200676@ip.pt cp212ph@hotmail.com
website: http://members.tripod.com/~PauloHenrique
International Symposium , 5 international Workshops
19. June - 11. July 1999
Hellerau/ Dresden / FRG
Summer academy: Theatre and New Media Theme 1999: interaction and reality 19. June - 11. July 1999 in Hellerau/ Dresden International Symsposium Workshops in perfomative and electronically-generated digital communication techniques for: students and professionals, directoors, cgireigraphers, actors, dramatic advisers, media artists as well as performance and media theoreticans The first summer academy for theatre and new media at the Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden takes place from June 19. to July 11. The theme of this summer academy is interaction and reality. The assignment of the summer academy is the education of students and professional: theatre directors, choreographers, actors, dramaturgs, media artists, as well as theatre- and media scientists in the usage of theatrical and electronic-digital techniques of communication. The summer academy opens in the night of june 19./20. with "ther -
COMMON SENSES workshop/ symposium
27 - 30 May 1999
Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
ZKM. Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany
Info/Reservations: 00 49 721 8100 1500
Tickets: free - reservation obligatoryCOMMON SENSES Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Institute for Visual Media/ Institute for Music and Acoustics Multimedia, interactivity, virtual realities, cyberspace, cybersex : our bodily senses are becoming channels for ever new, technically generated impressions. Engineers are developing new interfaces, programmers are creating increasingly intricate structures, neurophysiologists and psychologists are probing the senses with constantly refined technical devices, and artists are also seeking new ways to form sensual impressions with digital technologies. What are these developments inducing with and within our body and our senses; how are they influencing the way we perceive? Vision and audition engage specific spatial and temporal conditions of perception, as does the way we orientate ourselves in physical, physiological, social and cultural space : which neurophysiological findings are being brought into play by which artistic experiences? How are the possibilities offered by computers being implemented in the forging of artistic percepts? Visual and audio artists, actors and dancers, physiologists and psychologists, computer and interface developers, cultural theorists, social scientists and philosophers are invited to this workshop, where we shall first attempt to reacquaint ourselves with the interconnections of our own senses, rather than beginning with the simplistic assumption that the computer ensures all connections between all things, like a magical multimedia black box. Common Senses is organised in the framework of erena, a European Union esprit research project (i3 project #25379). Guest speakers include Lawrence Stark, Professor Emeritus of Vision Science and Optometry, Engineering Science, and Neurology, University of California at Berkeley; Jean-Pierre Roll, Professor at the Universite díAix-Marseille and Director of the Laboratoire de neurobiologie humaine of the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique; Eckart Altenmueller, Director of the Institute of Music Physiology and Performing Arts Medicine at the University of Music and Theatre, Hannover; and Bill Gaver, Senior Research Fellow in Computer Related Design at the Royal College of Art, London. Lectures from the fields of art and science will be accompanied by demonstrations of ongoing creative projects involving the development of new tools. These demonstrations will also be discussion sessions, notably for debate about the parallels and interactions between artistic and technological evolution. The workshop will begin and conclude with public presentations. The workshop will be held in English, and is free of charge. The number of participants is limited ; please contact the Institute for Visual Media for programme details and registration. Image@zkm.de Tel : (0) 49 721 8100 1500 Fax: (0) 49 721 8100 1509
email: image@zkm.de
website: www.zkm.de
April 6-9 1999
New York City
Info/Reservations: (212) 854-9267
Tickets: free!Ground-breaking performances featuring the latest interactive technologies in dance, sound and image Free and open to the public
CONCERT I Movement-sound Interactive Works Tuesday-Wednesday April 6-7, 9 pm, Cunningham Dance Studio, 55 Bethune street
CONCERT II Multimedia interactive works Thursday April 8 1999, 8pm, Miller Theater, 2960 Broadway (116th street and Broadway)
CONCERT III Interactive technologies in jazz-rock and improvisational works Friday, April 9th, 10 pm, The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street Interactive Technologies Day: Talks and workshops Wednesday April 7th 10am-5pm, Prentis Hall, 632 West 125th street, (btwn Broadway and Riverside) All events are free and open to the public.
email: fest99ts@music.columbia.edu
website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/fest99
Pùles
10-12 April Scottsdale Arizona
Lincoln Hall Portland State University
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Virtual projections intergrated with live dance/ physical theatre performance. Check website.email: pps@microtec.net or website
website: www.odyssee.net/~pps
4-7 March 1999
Connecticut College Center for Arts and Technology
New London, CT
Info/Reservations: 1-860-439-2001
Tickets:The Connecticut College Center for Arts and Technology is pleased to announce the 7th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology. The symposium will consist of paper sessions, panel discussions, art exhibitions, music concerts, animations, mixed media works, video, dance, experimental theater and scientific visualizations. Selected papers and presentations will be published by the Center and abstracts will be available on line. Please contact us on the below email address for more submission information. Submission Deadline: November 1, 1998
email: cat@conncoll.edu
website: http://cat.conncoll.edu/
Pùles
18-21 March 1999 20:00 Portland Oregon
Lincoln Hall Portland State University
Scottsdale Center for the Arts
Virtual projections intergrated with live dance/ physical theatre performance. Check website.email: pps@microtec.net or website
website: www.odyssee.net/~pps
Arirzona State University
25-28 February 1999
Arizona State University will host the International Dance and Technology 99 in February 25-28, 1999. The conference will be a convergence of performances and explorations by artists and scholars at the forefront of the field. The conference will highlight the efforts of individuals who make use of media and dance in experimental and provocative ways, with supporting lectures, roundtables, symposia, and keynote speeches. Specially designed events will challenge the traditional conference format, and establish new forms for exploring the use of dance and technology on the stage, in the gallery, on the web, and in the classroom. This conference is sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, and co-hosted by the Institute for Studies in the Arts and the Department of Dance at Arizona State University.
The conference will be a convergence of performances and explorations by artists and scholars at the forefront of the field. The conference will highlight the efforts of individuals who make use of media and dance in experimental and provocative ways, with supporting lectures, roundtables, symposia, and keynote speeches. Specially designed events will challenge the traditional conference format, and establish new forms for exploring the use of dance and technology on the stage, in the gallery, on the web, and in the classroom. This conference is sponsored by the College of Fine Arts, and co-hosted by the Institute for Studies in the Arts and the Department of Dance at Arizona State University.
email: idat99@asu.edu
web: http://isa.fa.asu.edu/IDAT99/
Route
1 & 2 December 1998 @ 7.30pm
Lawrence Batley Theatre
Queen Street
Huddersfield
Info/Reservations: 01484 430528
Tickets: £7.00 / £4.00A breath-taking excursion into a new electronic dance theatre experience. Ideas, images and physicalities transact across numerous levels of live, recorded and digital space. A fascinating and overwhelmingly sensual piece of total theatre. There will be a free pre-performance discussion on 2nd Dec. at 6pm. http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/music/Route.html
email: ElectronicDanceTheatre@writeme.com markb@poetic.com
website: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/music/EDT.html
migbot2
December 4 & 5, 10:oo pm
Winter Street Art Center, Houston (TX)
2123 Winter Street
Houston, TX (USA)
Info/Reservations: (713) 861 3782
Tickets: $ 9.ooAlienNation Co. will perform MIGBOT2, a new digital performance/film installation in 3 rooms at Winter Street Art Center , a 4000 square feet industrial space. MIGBOT2 is AlienNation's third new multimedia work premiered in 1998. Examining migratory time/bodies and a surreal journey in outer space, MIGBOT2 continues the company's development of new interfaces and interactive designs (computer/video projection, animation film, and choreography of space). Directed by choreographer/filmmaker Johannes Birringer and based on the migbot laboratory (Chichester), the new work features performers Angeles Romero, Emmanuel Woodward, and musicians Steve Pare and Monti Mayrend. Steve Pare, a core member of AlienNation Co. and coproducer of AlienNation's recently released CD-ROM North by South has composed the music for the installation.
email: orpheus@rice.edu
website: www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/
Beyond the Millenium: Redefining the Arts for the 21st Century
7 - 10 December
Intercontinental Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
Info/Reservations: (916) 322-6354Two Dance & Technology related artists (Mark Coniglio and Terry Braun) will be speaking and/or performing at the 1998 Governor's Conference on the Arts. It will explore how the arts will be created, supported and experienced in the new millenium by examining:
- The Future of the Arts Landscape: Changing Society and the Future of Arts Support
- Future of Museums: Changes in Curatorial Practice and the New Technologies
- Creation and Presentation in the New Millennium: How will the Arts be delivered to Audiences of the Future?
- and many other subjects
The closing event of the conference will take place at the new Getty Center, where special tours will be arranged. For additional information prior to that time, contact Gloria Woodlock, Special Initiatives, Planning and Research Officer, California Arts Council at gwoodlock@caartscouncil.com or (916) 322-6354.
email: gwoodlock@caartscouncil.com
website: http://www.cac.ca.gov/GCA98/gca98.htm
Felt Bodies
December 9 & 10, 1998
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco/ CA / 94110
Info/Reservations: 415 824 3890
Tickets: $5-10 sliding scaleBeyond modern medicine's cartesian concepts: Three interdisciplinary works reflect upon body matters. Pandora's Box (performance, video & installation) by K. Beckhof. The mythical vessel of 'all evil that flesh is heir to' serves as a methaphor for the artist's asthmatic lung. Imagine You Later ('new dance', video & moving screens) By Isabel Valverde with Sean Seward. An approach to the perception of our body interiority, exploring the controversial challenges to the human condition raised by technological advances in medicine. Fecundity (window installation & slide show) by Mary Mizelle. Confronts childhood's imamginings, nightmare vision, dread of contagium, horror of disease.
email: valverde@sirius.com ata@atasite.org
website: http://www.atasite.org
5, 10 & 11 December - 8 p.m.
6 December - 3 p.m.DTW - Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street New York, NY 10011
NEW YORK
Info/Reservations: (212) 924-0077FROM NOW ON - The riguor of the "outopsy" does not destroy the poetry with wich it makes us observe the strengths of the body as an object, wich may be manipulated by trainining and by technologies, subjected to segmentation or deformation, the cosmic body and the intimate, visceral body. (in Present Movements / Waiting for the next genetration, by Maria De Assis, 1997 Cotovia)
email: dtw@dtw.org cp212ph@hotmail.com
website: http://www.goplay.com/cp212
14-10 December 1998
STEIM
Achtergracht 19
Amsterdam
Info/Reservations: +31 20 6228690
Tickets:STEIM will open doors to a manifestation called "Touch", from December 14th through 19th, filling the halls at the Frascati theatre venue in Amsterdam. "Touch" will be the ideal opportunity for visitors to literally Touch and play with new instruments conceived and developed for the electronic performance arts. "Touch" is not about worshipping 'old content-new media' cyber-hype, but is rather a feast for the 'hands-on': alive and vivacious, throbbing, warm, sensual, ecstatic live electronic stage acts and immediate media. "Touch" is a festival of music, theatre and performances, hosting an exhibition of 'Please Do Touch' instruments and a meeting place for pioneers, inventors, scientists and philosophers.
email: steim@xs4all.nl
website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~steim/
amazing daze
1st November 1998
The Rocket/The Cockpit Leeds
the Arches, swingate
1sl 4ag
Leeds
Info/Reservations: 0113 243 8765
Tickets: 4£Barriedale Operahouse and guests from both London & Yorkshire present a high-octane, multimedia event to stun the senses...definitions of performance gather in a huddle to roast themselves. Internet-based installations and broadcasting, live-video mixing and switching, bar, dance, CD-ROM design, 8 Performers, Theatre, Installation Art, Interactive Music, Food, Electronic Music, Live-Music, DJs, lights and trains.... Guests include: Greyworld(London), K2 (Vienna), LoKi (London), ... Supported by: Yorkshire Dance, TEST, Y+H ARTS, Artec, Camper, GDA, etc. from 12 Midday - till late (drop in and out but be there by 7 30)
email: boh@metronet.co.uk
website: htttp://www.metronet.co.uk/boh/altdaze
12-15 November 1998
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
The Art of the Moment: Looking at Dance Performance from Inside and Out, the official title of the event, is an appropriate focus for a conference hosted by one of the nation's most illustrious dance departments. OSU's strength in the creation, preservation, recreation, and production of contemporary dance, along with its pioneering efforts in dance technology, makes the department an ideal host facility for topics related to performance. Special features of the OSU conference are a Pre-Conference Multimedia Workshop on Thursday, November 12 and a reception and tour of the Wexner Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, a lively venue dedicated to nurtuing contemporary art and art making.
email: pierson.2@osu.edu
website: http://www.dance.ohio-state.edu/files/CORD/index.html
Vera's Body
13 & 14 Novemeber 1998
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Info/Reservations: 216.775.8200
Troika Ranch will culminate a weeklong Live-I Workshop at Oberlin with a performance of Vera's Body, their newly created work in which the main character has died, but comes back to remind the audience of the exquisiteness of possessing a body and experiencing the world with it. Through dance, music and video imagery she shares the moments of insight in her life, all of which come from her visceral, physical experience of the world. Technology & media become the conduit through which \we come to see Vera's body, and our own, in a new way.
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
17-29 November 1998
Rotterdam, Netherlands
DEAF, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, is a bi-annual event that deals with the inter-relations between art, technology and society. Through its presentation of independent and interdisciplinary artistic and scientific projects, DEAF seeks to stimulate a critical discussion about social, political and aesthetic developments in new media. DEAF98 will explore the specific qualities of network environments and real and virtual worlds through interdisciplinary projects of artists, architects and scientists. Under the title TransArchitectures, a series of topics from current debates in architecture will become part of the festival. We invite considered suggestions for art projects and other contributions in different formats (installation, Internet projects, CD-ROM, performance, presentation, etc.) that are related to the theme of DEAF98. Please, send brief outlines of your suggestions to or to the address below, and we will get in touch with you should we require further information. Deadline: 15 April 1998
email: v2@v2.nl
website: http://www.v2.nl/DEAF/
October 1998
Madrid, Spain
"In the Electronic Age, we wear all mankind as our second skin". Marshall McLuhan "Understanding Media". The "Second skin" has began to become apparent. The body as we know it, results obsolete. Frontiers lose their meaning and cyberspace becomes a real alternative to earth geography. The world becomes irreversible virtual. We attend to a great planet mutation that announces economic and social unprecedented changes. Technologies which are designing this new world, already exits: instantaneous and located telecommunications ; faster navegation interfaces; a fusion of virtual reality, nets and more powerful, inteligent and faster computer terminals. They are our "Second skin". The next ART FUTURA edition (Madrid, October 1998) is opened to any collaboration. Projects are accepted in the following areas: 1. Installations 2. Performance 3. Conferences Calls for computer animation selections (Art Futura Show and Computer Animation in Spain) will be published in this web site, in June.
email: artfutura@artfutura.org
website: http://www.artfutura.org/index2.html
2-7 September 1998
Liverpool - Manchester (UK)
ISEA98 is organized by FACT (Foundation for Arts & Creative Technology), Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Art School and the Department of Fine Arts of Manchester Metropolitan University. The theme for ISEA98 is REVOLUTION and activities include symposia presentations integrating theoretical positions, dialogues/debates, artist and technologists workshops, exchanges and performances. A process of continuous publication will collate and order these activities in simultaneous editions of digital, internet, video and paper formulations.
email: isea98@fact.co.uk
website: http://www.isea98.org/
Il Fuoco, LAcqua, L Ombra (Fire, water, shadow)
4 th and 5th of September 1998
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, Museumsmeile Bonn
Bonn- Germany
Info/Reservations: 0049-228-9171-136 or -216
Tickets: DM 25.-/18.-Pictures of (e)motion 98 International festival for dance, film & new media "Pictures of (e)motion" was founded in 1995 in cooperation with Tanz Performance Kln and the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland and has dedicated itself to presenting new artists worlds resultingfrom the dialog between dance and fim, video as well as computer technologies. This year "Pictures of (e)motion will concentrate on the world premiere of IL FUOCO, L ACQUA, L OMBRA (Fire, water, shadow). Studio Azzurro, pioneers of European video art was commissioned to realize this project together with the composer Giorgio Battistelli, the choreographer Roberto Castello and his comany ALDES. Tarkovskijs films revolve around the discovery of the fantastic dimension in reality. Il FUCO, L ACQUA, L OMBRA is a tribute to this great film poet, who enriches reality with images of the possible and imaginary. In his films he opens up the rich palette of images that nature has to offer from an obscure perspective. Five contextual elements - earth, fire, water, wind and shadow - continually move away from the tangible the more the electronic media used melts together with the dance and the music. Supported by projections, interaction and bodies in motion, a movable, roating platform causes a continual transformation of the performance space. This effect mirrors weightlessness, which is a part and parcel of the elemnet of nature.
email: tpkoel@aol.com
website: http://members.aol.com/tanzundmedia/index.htm
6 September 1998 / 14.00 - 17.00
V2
Eendrachtsstraat 10
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Info/Reservations: +31 (0)10 206 7272
Tickets: 7.50 guildersBoth "site-specific" live dance and dance for the screen have helped to redefine and expand methods and practices of dancemaking as well as our perceptions of the dancing body. Relatively recently, the space/ time construction known popularly as "cyberspace" has emerged as a result of rapid and radical developments in digital technologies. Wiretap 4.05: 'Dancing in Virtual and Physical Space' will be organised as a forum to present the work of dancers and to open up discussions related to the possibilities and challenges of utilizing digital or virtual spaces for dancemaking. Presentations from Scott deLahunta, Paul Kaiser, Susan Kozel and Kirk Woolford
email: sdela@ahk.nl
website: http://www.v2.nl/cgi-bin/w3-msql/wiretap/wiretapEN.html?wiretapID=90
Zeitgeist II
Monday 7 September 11.00am
Royal Northern College of Music
Oxford Road
Manchester
England
Info/Reservations: see ISEA website
Tickets: see ISEA websiteThis performance given as part of ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Art) at the TERROR platform in Manchester.
email: ElectronicDanceTheatre@writeme.com SMUSMAB@pegasus.hud.ac.uk
website: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/music/EDT.html
7-12 September 1998
Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica, one of the world's most highly-acclaimed festivals at the interface of art, technology and society, has been presented annually since 1979. Over the last several years, the central focus of Ars Electronica has shifted from individual technical innovations and the latest computer technologies to the festival's on-going, intensive confrontation with the socio-cultural effects of the information society. The real results of a globalized, informed world constitute the centerpoint of the festival's activities and considerations. Commentary on these developments is not only of a technical nature, but rather primarily from a social and political perspective. INFOWAR, the title of this year's festival, places the strategies of data-supported wars - from the Gulf Conflict to the skirmishes of cyberguerillas - into the focal point of artistic as well as theoretical and scientific interest, to thereby shed light on the internal logic of the information society in connection with war. Numerous events, installations, network projects, performances and a symposium make up the festival's program to confront and deal with this subject.email: maria@aec.at
website: http://www.aec.at/infowar/
Real gestures, virtual environments
4th-16th August 1998
International Institute of Puppetry, Charleville-MÈziËres (France), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Institut International de la Marionnette, 7 place Winston Churchill,08000 Charleville-MÈziËres
ZKM, Lorenzstrasse 19, D-76135 Karlsruhe
Charleville-MÈziËres, France// Karlsruhe, Germany
Info/Reservations: 33 3 24 33 72 50 (France)
Tickets: course fee 4000 French francsThis workshop is a follow-up to the 1994 motion capture course directed by Sally Jane Norman, theatre historian, cultural theorist and practitioner, at the International Institute of Puppetry. The goal then was to open up capture technologies to the gestural skills of puppeteers, mimes, and dancers, to explore the vivacity and theatrical pregnancy of real-time computer graphics as a performance medium. Experimentation was carried out with optical (PRIMAS) and magnetic (POLHEMUS) trackers, using Softimage Creative Environment. The 1998 workshop will focus on developing a working grammar of body-object relations, and building a basic repertory of movement scenarios that will be ported from "bare boards" elaboration at the Puppetry Institute, to the blue box and Medientheater at the ZKM, which will be equipped with a wide array of tracking devices. Ten participants will be selected to participate in this intensive course (puppeteers, mimes, acrobats, dancers, jugglers), which will conclude with a "demonstration-performance" at the ZKM Medientheater. This unique workshop will benefit from the cross-disciplinary openness and creative integrity that characterise the International Institute of Puppetry, and from the artistic and technological know-how of the ZKM. It will be closely followed up by the ZKM and partners working on the erena ESPRIT long-term European research project, devoted to developing new forms of performance in digital spaces. Online texts on performance and new technologies by Sally Jane Norman include "The Art of Puppets" [http://dll.botik.ru/~norman/] "Dramatis Personae : Casting Cyberselves" [http://www.telefonica.es/fat/norman.html] "Nouvelles scènographies du regard ou scènographies du nouveau regard [http://www.ina.fr/CP/Mediologie/art9.html] "Theaters of Cyber (Re-)Creation" [http://club.nokia.com.channels/mediorama/] For the International Institute of Puppetry history and activities, see [http://www.ardennes.com/asso/iim] For the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, see [http://www.zkm.de] For the European erena project, see http://www.nada.kth.se/erena/
email: inst.marionnette@ardennes.com
website: http://www.ardennes.com/asso/iim
24 and 25 August 1998
Port Eliot House in St Germans, Cornwall, UK
Following the CAiiA Conference at UWCN, a Symposium on new developments in interactive design and cyber architecture, set in the context of Consciousness Reframed, will be organised by STAR at the University of Plymouth in St Germans at the historic Port Eliot House. The Symposium will explore the impact of digital technologies on the institutions, locations and structures of cultural production and consumption, and will cover such topics as: new media arts and research centres, educational structures, interactive publishing/broadcasting, intelligent environments and public interfaces.
email: carole@soc.plym.ac.uk
website: http://caiia-star.newport.plymouth.ac.uk/production/interstices/index.html
Pôles: dance + virtual
August 30 and 31 at 8:00 pm
Dive into the Future Festival
EXPO 98 at Lisbon
Pôles will be presented in Lisbon as part of the Dive into the Future Festival at EXPO 98. Then, the performance will tour across Europe until November 3. Check our website for updated informations.email: pps@microtec.net
website: http://www.odyssee.net/~pps
Machines and Migratory Bodies: Digital Performance Workshop
8 - 18 July, 1998
Chichester, England
Chichester Institute of Higher Education, Bishop Otter Campus
Chichester, England
Info/Reservations: orpheus@rice.edu
Tickets: workshop fee: £200.The School of the Arts at Chichester presents *Machines and Migratory bodies* A ten day residential performance and New Technology workshop at Chichester > Institute of Higher Education England. 8-18TH JULY 1998 Produced by Chris Butler Head of the School of the Arts at Chichester Directed by Johannes Birringer ( AlienNation Co., Houston) In cooperation with guest artists from Europe Description of Workshop First created and conducted in 1996 during the Split Screen Digital Arts Festival in Chichester, England, this multimedia performance and technology lab is designed to explore the multimedia communications and expressions of the future. It is offered as a 10-day intensive workshop open to participants from all visual and performing arts areas, and its particular focus is directed at: a) technological performance process (sampling, editing, processing, reprocessing, multi media integration) b) interactivity (design, live/virtual interfaces, MIDI activity, on-line event structure, conversions, transmissions. c) installation and display techniques of performance/digital mediaworks. It focuses on experimentation that seeks to explore new spatial-temporal relations and translations of visual, sensory experience. The workshop is production-oriented and designed to culminate in a public rehearsal-performance, screening or installation/exhibition of the materials that have been developed by the participants, on the 17/18July. There is excellent, state-of-the-art rehearsal and studio facilities with technical/electronic equipments that are available to the group. Superior campus accomodation £250 to include food. Course fee £200 This unique opportunity is for participants who have indepth knowledge of the area and would like to develop their skills with experts from the Field within this >residential framework. There are only ten places available. Prospective applicants are invited to submit a resumè and porfolio (work samples and documentation of previous work recommended) Send to : *orpheus@rice.edu Registration deadline: June ist Other information from Chris Butler hosa@chihe.ac.uk Chichester Institute of Higher Education Bishop Otter College College Lane Chichester Tel O1243 816170. This performance/multimedia workshop offers a laboratory for the organic integration of performance and digital arts, and for the development of new interdisciplinary methods of composition. This workshop is conceptually based on migrations of the body and the relations of the organic and the digitally generated. Sites, parasities, machine bodies and liguid geographies of physical bodies and virtual realities. The day and evening rehearsals will explore the relationships between performance/writing and photography/film, image-time and movement-time, music and movement, the grain of the voice and the grain of the body's image, analog and digital processes, samplings and conversions, as well as between movements of the body and the ethnoscapes of Post Modernity.
email: orpheus@rice.edu hosa@chihe.ac.uk
website: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/
19-24 July 1998
Orlando, Florida
The World's Premier Computer Graphics Conference & Exhibition SIGGRAPH 98, the 25th annual international conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, will be held in Orlando at the Orange County Convention Center, 19-24 July 1998. More than 30,000 professionals will explore the latest research, the finest images, the far-out applications, the down-to-earth problem solving, the serious adventures, and the world-class fun of SIGGRAPH 98.
Conference in Vienna
4 and 5 June 1998
depot - museumsquarter - museumsplatz 1 - 1010 vienna
Info/Reservations: http://www.univie.ac.at/kontextCyberdance - Performance and New MediaJune 4 and 5, 1998, at the depot - Museumsquartier -Museumsplatz 1, 1070 ViennaNew technologies challenge definitions of the body in danceand performance. Interactive applications shift
Tickets:Cyberdance - Performance and New Media June 4 and 5, 1998, at the depot - Museumsquartier - Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna New technologies challenge definitions of the body in dance and performance. Interactive applications shift the perception from observing a representation to an active participation. The idea of a technological body provides material for utopia and criticism. Experiments by dancers and performers currently explore these areas of tension. Lectures and video lectures reflect on the use of new media as a means for the stage, analyze possibe interfaces between bodies and technologies, and initiate debates on questions of body art. Additional informations and abstracts online: http://www.univie.ac.at/kontext Neue Technologien fordern die Definition des Krpers in Tanz und Performance heraus. Interaktive Anwendungen verschieben die Wahrnehmung von der Beobachtung einer Darstellung hin zur aktiven Teilnahme. Der technologisch gedachte Krper liefert Material f¸r Utopien und Kritik. Experimente von TnzerInnen und PerformerInnen loten aktuell diese Spannungsfelder aus. Vortrge und Videolectures reflektieren die Anwendung neuer Medien als B¸hnenmittel, analysieren mgliche Schnittstellen zwischen Krpern und Technologien und initiieren Diskussionen zu Fragen der Krperkunst. Weitere Informationen und abstracts online: http://www.univie.ac.at/kontext PROGRAMME: Thursday, June 4, 1998 7.00 pm Welcome and Introduction 7.30 pm Martina Leeker (Berlin): On the Paradox Return of the Body in Bio-Electronic Performances (in German) 8.30 pm Discussion Friday, June 5, 1998 11.00 am Ghislaine Boddington (London): Video Lecture on Current Performances (in English) 12.30 am Coffee Break 1.00 pm Dagmar Fink (Vienna): 'It's a She Thing' - The Cyborg as Feminist Narrative Figure (in German) 2.30 pm Break 3.30 pm Ruth Schnell (Vienna): Interactive Media Art versus Representative (in German) 5.00 pm Concluding Discussion
email: harald.begusch@univie.ac.at
website: http://www.univie.ac.at/kontext
Louis Bec, zoosystematist;
Barbara Becker, philosopher, GMD, Bonn;
Steve Benford, computer scientist, University of Nottingham;
Sally Jane Norman; performing arts theorist, International Institute of Puppetry;
Steve Pettifer, computer scientist, Advanced Interfaces Group, University of Manchester6th - 7th June 1998 Saturday early afternoon till Sunday early afternoon
Villa d'Aubilly, International Institute of Puppetry, Charleville-MÈziËres, France
Institut International de la Marionnette, 7 place Winston Churchill, 08000 Charleville-MÈziËres (2 1/2 hours from Paris/ Brussels)
Charleville-MÈziËres
Info/Reservations: 03 24 33 72 50
Tickets: 100 French francs seminar enrolment; dinner on Saturday evening 70 French francs; possibility to reserve hotel (165 or 250 FF) through the International Puppetry InstituteResearch on computer-generated objects and beings ascribes growing importance to their proxemics, their behavioural quirks, the legibility of their trajectories and gestures. There are attempts to determine thresholds of recognition to be built into digital realms, allowing us to invest these vital spaces more intuitively. The art of puppetry, built on body-object relations and instrumental gesture, offers such research a particularly rich experimental arena. Puppets engender live symbolic spaces for action and interaction : although they are handled in keeping with quantifiable mechanical laws, they are first and foremost poetic interfaces, bearers of unmeasurable energies. Participants from the arts, philosophy, theatre history and computer science will discuss the gestural poetics latent in digital spaces. A Saturday evening session will be devoted to a demonstration of varous handling techniques by students from the National School of Puppetry.
email: inst.marionnette@ardennes.com
website: http://www.ardennes/com/asso/iim
From now On
27-29 May - 20.30 (France)
Studio du CDC-5
Av. Etienne Billieres
31300 Toulouse
Info/Reservations: 05-61599878
FROM NOW ON - The riguor of the "outopsy" does not destroy the poetry with wich it makes us observe the strengths of the body as an object, wich may be manipulated by trainining and by technologies, subjected to segmentation or deformation, the cosmic body and the intimate, visceral body. (in Present Movements / Waiting for the next genetration, by Maria De Assis, 1997 Cotovia)
email: Forum Danca or CP212 - PH
website: http://members.tripod.com/~PauloHenrique/index.html
2-5 April 1998
Aarhus, Denmark
ART CRASH is an international art and culture project which takes place in Aarhus in 1998 and 1999. As the title indicates, ART CRASH is where art forms collide: Installation art - theatre - dance - painting - music - sculpture - litterature - video - film - photo.The collisions which also involve "light" and new technology will be manifold: between art and new technology, between art and science, between city space and citizens, between light and darkness... ART CRASH opens with a symposium (http://www.artcrash.dk/sympos.html) in Aarhus April 2 - 4 1998. Both Wayne Siegel from DIEM and Scott deLahunta will be making presentations.email: kulth@fk.aarhus.dk
website: http://www.artcrash.dk/
Falling to Earth
April 22-25, 7:30pm
Institute For Studies in the Arts, Tempe, AZ
Arizona State University
Info/Reservations: Sheilah BrittonPhone: 965-0964 e-mail: sheilah@asu.edu
Choreographer Ellen Bromberg and video-artist Douglas Rosenberg, whose previous collaboration Singing Myself a Lullaby was honored with the prestigious Isadora Duncan Dance Award, are breaking new ground at Arizona State University's Institute for Studies in the Arts. Working with ISA resident fellow, John D. Mitchell, the three artists have combined their talents to create a work which will integrate interactive technologies with the creative and performing processes. The collaboration extends the continuum of dance and technology and brings together the artist's three individual histories drawn from their extensive backgrounds in dance, video, and electronic music. Falling to Earth will be performed in the Intelligent Stage utilizing the tools, technology, and resources available through the Institute and its artists and technologists.
Institute for Studies in the Arts: http://researchnet.vprc.asu.edu/isa/
Desired
April 29, 1998 , 8pm
Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
Info/Reservations: 404-894-9600
Tickets: $8On April 29, 1998 is the world premiere of a new dance technology piece titled ``Desired". Created in collaboration with Georgia Tech's Interactive Media Technology Center (IMTC), the dance features choreographer Nicole Livieratos and the GardenHouse Dance Company. The performance is part of The Arts Festival at Georgia Tech. http://murmur.arch.gatech.edu/techarts http://www.oip.gatech.edu/html/dance_tech.html
5 March 1998 - 8pm
The Kitchen
512 W. 19th. St.
New York, NY
Info/Reservations: 212.255.5793
Tickets: $15Fiercely physical choreography, dense musical scores, and inventive use of media and interactive technology distinguish New York based dance theater company Troika Ranch. The characters that populate the works of this evening struggle to keep pace with the world, while sensors in the space or on their bodies allow their movements to control sound, light and video imagery.
We will be sharing this evening with Seth Riskin, "an optical dancer and painter of light transforms ancient rituals into modern magic, spinning, dazzling universes of light in motion."
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
ZEITGEIST
7 MARCH 1998
THE BARBICAN CENTRE, LONDON as part of MUSICALLIANCE UK
LONDON
Info/Reservations: 44 (0) 181 374 4207
Tickets: phone above for informationZeitgeist - powerful & nihilistic - not for the faint hearted! Zeitgeist is the latest piece by Electronic Dance Theatre using their Bodycoder System developed by the company in 1996. The type of virtuosity that the Bodycoder System enables can best be described as intensely synaesthesic and this is what makes Zeitgeist a powerful real-time performance - a pathological mixture of kinetics, sounds and images. "Bodycoder opens a domain of cyborg art that exceeds the human without simply rejecting it " (Dew Hemment - for MUTE) Zeitgeist - a challenging / confrontational explosion of kaleidoscopic psychologistic density - an attempt to lay bare the nature of Being in performance in the midst of new technology.
email: ElectronicDanceTheatre@writeme.com or MarkB@poetic.com
website: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/music/EDT.html
Touch 1
February the 6th 1998
CAEC (Centre d'Art et d'Essai et de CrÈation) Marc Sangnier
rue Nicolas Poussin 76130 Mont Saint Aignan
Mont Saint Aignan (Rouen) France
Info/Reservations: 00 33 2 35 74 18 70
Tickets: freeK.Danse (choreographer Jean-Marc Matos), together with video artist Cathy Vogan, work on and perform an ìon lineî dance piece, ìTouchî. ìTouchî is destined to be part 1 of a tryptich of creations on the theme of conflict between corporeal and virtual being. The presentation of the first episode will take place February 6thí98 at the ìCentre díArt et díEssai du Mont St. Aignanî (City of Rouen), the second episode will be performed April 30th. and the third will be part of a large event at the school of engineers INSA, performed between two distant locations in Rouen, November 17th. to 19th. 1998. The three episodes remain nevertheless autonomous theatrical events and are open to connexions with distant choreographers-dancers from other cities and countries. The connexion explores possible man-woman love relationships in cyber space (with ISDN lines, minimum). For more detailed information please contact the company by e-mail.
email: kdmatos@worldnet.fr
website: website: http://www.metafort.com/web/metafort/pages/technolarme.html
Press ESCAPE! (III)
February 12 and 13
20:00Tafelhalle
Nürnberg, Germany
Info/Reservations: +49 911 397472
Tickets: free passes for those hearing of this through dtz!Including "Happenings of Note", "Abstnde", "Heartbeats", a new Audience-Interactive work, and five other computer-controlled media-interactive pieces. "...from concept to execution, accoustically and visually equally fascinating!" NN
email: r.wechsler@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de or palindrome@compuserve.com
website: website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/palindrome
From Now On
14-15 February 1998 - 20.00
La Quarta Pared
Madrid, Spain
FROM MOW ON - The riguor of the "outopsy" does not destroy the poetry with wich it makes us observe the strengths of the body as an object, wich may be manipulated by trainining and by technologies, subjected to segmentation or deformation, the cosmic body and the intimate, visceral body. (in Present Movements / Waiting for the next genetration, by Maria De Assis, 1997 Cotovia)
email: Forum Danca or ph212@concentric.net
website: http://members.tripod.com/~PauloHenrique
"Flat Earth"
February 17,1998 at 8 pm
Context, 28 AV. A, 3rd floor, NY 10009
New York
Info/Reservations: 212-777 3394
Tickets: $10A live coloboration of movement, image, voice and sound. a ride trought several atmospheres, a world of hearing and symbols. (@ CONTEXT - Three evenings of Live Video Performance: 10/17/24 Feb.)
email: ph212@concentric.net
website: http://members.tripod.com/~PauloHenrique
"ElectricMask"
February 26-28
University of Texas at Austin B Iden Paine Theatre
Dept of Theatre & Dance
Austin Texas
Info/Reservations: 512 471 5793
Tickets: USD$10"ElectricMask" Premier Announcement The premier performance of "ElectricMask" February 26-28 8:00pm at the University of Texas at Austin Campus, B. Iden Paine Theatre. The work is conceived, choreographed, and computer animated by Yacov Sharir, In collaboration with multimedia artists Nate Pagel and Composer Tom Lopez. ElectricMask involves four dancers, (humans) four CyberHumans, Composer (performer real time interaction) Choreographer (electric mask activator real time interaction) A video motion capture system has been developed for the work set to detect choreographer Yacov Sharir facial gestures. The gestures will be exaggerated by the electric mask features, a MIDI signal (detected by the system) will be send to activate real time sound, quick time movies, (cyber dancers) and robotics lighting instruments.
email: sharir@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu sharir@mail.utexas.edu
website: http://internetv.cpm/sharir
"Parachute"
February 27 through March 29
various site-specific locations, Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas (USA)
Info/Reservations: 713 521 3325
Tickets: variableThe transcultural dance/film and performance ensemble AlienNation Co. (Johannes Birringer, Artistic Director) introduces "Parachute," a series of performance, music, visual art and film/photography installation events created in unused or inaccessible spaces of Houston's historic downtown district and the former El Mercado del Sol during International FotoFest 1998. Events: Dance-Concert featuring former Houston Ballet choreographer-dancer Sandra Organ, with original music composed by Steve ParÈ and performed live. Location: empty 2md floor loft of Bayou Place, Houston. Time: February 27, 28 and March 1, 9:30 pm Music Concert featuring Puerto-Rican singer/composer Lourdes PÈrez and musicians. Location: The Americas (former El Mercado del Sol) Time: March 6 & 7, 8:30 pm Installation-Exhibition, featuring plastic sculptures by tania Botelho and Zita Giraldo Lang; photographic installations by Hans Staartjes, Yiannis Efstathiou, Sandra Skrabanek and Lorrie Spencer; text by Abdel Hern·ndez; Parachute film installation by Johannes Birringer. Location: 316 Main Street, former Dean's Clothing Credit Store Webcast of "Parachute-Online," March 21, beamed to World Wide wWeb via www.netropolis.net. Performance film, featuring Parachute Between the Places, by Johannes Birringer and Angeles Romero with Sandra Skrabanek/Mark Medina (design). Location: 316 Main Street. Documentation: AlienNation Website: www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/ This project is fully interactive only on the local sites. The webcast is a transformation of the film shoots carried out during the live performances. The installation concept is a spiral. The exhibition, housed in an abandoned clothes's store, will be processual and transitory, and change every day. Our interactions are aimed primarily at the community and the downtown workers, residents, and the curious.
email: orpheus@rice.edu
website: www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/
Talking/Performing Virtually
24 January 1998
Witte Museum
San Antonio Texas
Info/Reservations: Margaret Stanley 210 826.6540
Tickets: Freeemail: sharir@utxsvs.cc.utexas.edu
website: http://www.internetv/sharir
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
4-21 December 1997
224 Centre Street at Grand, 3rd fl, NYC, NY
212.431.5127
- Dec. 4: Jaroslav Koran & Michael Delia: a sculptural musical instrument
- Dec. 5: Nina Goede: five movements in the Opera Brut style for voice, electronics, video-projections, text-fragments & pre-recorded tape.
- Dec. 8: Tom Johnson: a diehard minimalist and former VV critic returns after 14yrs. in Paris
- Dec. 11: Victoria Jordanova: brings harp into the age of the boom box with electronics.
- Dec. 12: Tim Brady: "Strange Attractors", electric guitar, live electronics and tape.
- Dec. 18: Richard Povall: new works for body-driven music, and body-centered multi-channel video.
- Dec. 21: Phill Niblock: 6hrs. of film, video and music from 6pm - midnight.
All performances at 9PM, except Dec. 21 at 6PM
9-12 December 1997
Puerto de la Cruz in Tenerife (Canary Islands )
Why does digital technology question so drastically what it means to be human? In the last decade we have found diverse cultural metaphors in literature, film and television that refer to the human being's new position within the realm of electronic media. But it is perhaps in contemporary art, and more specifically with art produced with electronic technology, that we find aesthetic investigations that are particularly insightful when considering the human/electronic coupling. Contributors include: Andreas Broeckman (v2), Gerfried Stocker (ars electronica), Sergi Jorda, Marcel.li Antunez, Sally Jane Norman, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Esther Mera.email: info@in-art.com
website: http://www.in-art.com/
Computers and Creativity Symposium
Amsterdam School of the Arts (AHK)
11 December 1997We will perform In Plane during this symposium on Computers and Creativity. In this work Artistic Director Dawn Stoppiello dances an athletic duet with her virtual dopplegnger, an interactively controlled video projection of herself. The feeling is almost one of a competition, where each character fights in vain to prove itself better than the other. The physical dancer has sensors built into her costume (MidiDancer) that allow her movements to directly control the video image, perform the musical score, and change the theatrical lighting. You can find out more details at the other activities at this conference at their website.
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
EXPERIMENTAL INTERMEDIA
12-13 December 1997Arts Education ? New Media is a short intensive working conference on the implications of new digital media and information technologies for education in the areas of music, fine art, architecture, film/ television, and theater/ dance with a particular focus on circumstances within the Netherlands.
For more info, and sign up information go to the website at http://www.ahk.nl/homes/ahk/sdela/conf/
email: borgdorff@ahk.nl
website: http://www.ahk.nl/homes/ahk/sdela/conf/
Lecture/Demonstration
HEAR (London, England)
16 December 1997 - 8PM2-4 Southgate Road -- corner of the canal
London N1 3JJ
Studio Telephone: 0171 241 2877Our host Susan Kozel has invited us to give an informal lecture/demonstration about our work combining technology and dance during our visit to London. We will be showing segments of In Plane (see description above) which uses our MidiDancer system to allow the dancer to control the performance of the musical score and the recall of video imagery. We will also be demonstrating the Interactor software that we use to create all of our interactive performances.
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA
November 7-10 1997After 17 years we have finally decided to drop the annual theme and concentrate on what's important: Computer Technology and its unique relationship to the Visual Arts, Music, Dance and Performance Art. Important Dates: Aug 19 - deadline for paper, presentation and performance proposals. Sept. 15 - deadline for art show submissions.
email: scan@netaxs.com
website: http://www.scanarts.com/scan/
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames St. Cambridge, MA
14-16 and 21-23 November 1997
(see website for precise times)"It/I" portrays two characters, "I" (played by a human actor) and "It" (played by a computer) in a pantomime about the relation between people and technology. The play is part of a project at the MIT Media Laboratory on integrating computers into theater through computer vision technology. The computer playing "It" monitors the scene with video cameras and reacts to "I"'s actions by displaying real time computer graphics objects and synthesizing sound. After the play, the public is invited to go up on the stage and interact with "It".
email: iti@media.mit.edu
website: http://www.media.mit.edu:80/~iti/
Valencia, Spain
8-16 November 1997Ciber@RT, llega a su tercera ediciÛn en el aÒo 1997, con la pretensiÛn de buscar las respuestas adecuadas a las preguntas que surgen cuando consideramos las nuevas tecnologÌas: sus repercusiones psicolÛgicas, las nuevas formas de organizaciÛn social, los modos de representaciÛn en la comunicaciÛn, en la concepciÛn espacio - temporal, en las formas econÛmicas, polÌticas, etc.
email: ciberart@ivaj.gva.es
website: http://drac.medusa.es/ciberart97/
www.MorrisonDance.com
After September 30, 1997An archived video of "Leaping Into the Net," which was performed at the Cleveland Public Theatre. Watch the dance from your home computer!
email: sarah@morrisondance.com
website: http://www.MorrisonDance.com
Making Good Dance Videos
TANZMESSE NRW Dance Fair NRW
Oct. 3 & 4
8:00PMEssen Germany..Oct 2-5 Tanzmesse NRW International Dance Fair with 36 performances plus lectures. e: tanznrw@aol.com
email: dennis.videod@worldnet.att.net
website: http://www.tanznrw.de
PONG Festival
Rhode Island School of Design / Brown University
4 October 1997 / 9 P.M.
Free!Troika Ranch will perform five recent works as part of the annual PONG Festival held at Brown and RISD. For ticket information, and more information on the specific works to be performed, please stop by http://www.troikaranch.org/performances.html. We hope to see you there.
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.troikaranch.org/
Furado No. 1 and No.2
ARENA DANCING SERIES, Houston Metropolitan Dance Center
October 4 and 25, 8:oo pm"FURADO No. 1" and "FURADO No.2" will be presented as work-in-porgress at the October ARENA DANCING series producd by Farrell Dyde Dance Theatre at the Houston Metropolitan Dance Center. Johannes Birringer (AlienNation Co.) will create two dancefilm environments, linking silent live action (No. 1) and a live soundscape composition (no.2) with a digitally created dancefilm. These two concerts initiate the new Houston-based DDA (Dance/Digital Art) Studio of the new AlienNation Co. built in Texas. The company is now in rehearsal creating new choreographic designs for the integration of film sculpture, photography, electronic music and movement-based digital stories.
email: orpheus@merle.acns.nwu.edu
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
Motherboard/LawHat al-uum
Screens Seminar, Trondheim, Norway
10-11 October 1997A two day seminar in which many different aspects of the culture of the screen will be discussed, from considerations of the digitalisation of cinema to the condition of liquid architecture in cyberspace. An international group of speakers from the fields of art, architecture, dance, theatre, music, film studies, philosophy and media theory will discuss a range of issues which complement and supplement the ideas and visions represented by the screens exhibition. http://kit.trdkunst.no/screens/
email: maggies@pobox.com
website: http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard/
OPEN HOUSE
Erlangen, Germany
October 14-31, call for an appointmentOctober 14-31 is OPEN house at Palindrome. We will have the entire "Press ESCAPE" system running at Experimentiertheater, in Erlangen (near Nürnberg). Visits and showings are possible almost everyday, except weekends, but please call first. We will be rehearsing and cannot promise a "command performance", but in any case, it should be interesting. We are working particularly on "Der Minotarus". This is a piece of music by bay-area computer composer Erling Wold played entirely by the movements of 4 dancers. Frieder Weiþ, as always, is the computer engineer. Over 200 separate notes are located in 3-dimensions (though not simultaneously). These locations (what we call "touchlines") are activated, when penetrated by a body part. They are played, as virtual instruments. Dancers are thus musicians (and vice versa). Aside from being a (forgive me) beautiful musical/movement work, it raises a number of interesting considerations some of which are discussed in my article "O body swayed to music... and vice versa" (soon to appear in Leonardo, Digital Salon, and shortly thereafter, in our web site).
email: r.wechsler@rzmail.uni-erlangen.de
website: ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/palindrome
Touch Compass
Maidment Studio Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand
15-19 October 1997New Zealand's first mixed ability dance season. Touch Compass consists of three able-bodied dancers and four disabled dancers. The theme throughout the show is 'Touch Compass', which examines the many aspects of touch and the influence it has as we navigate our way through life. The major work involves seven dancers suspended by harnesses playing with their ever-changing relationship to gravity, weight and space. Enter the wacky, wonderful world of flying wheelchairs, spiralling bodies and dancing rollerblades.
email: cchappell@clear.net.nz
website: http://www.url.co.nz/arts/TouchCompass/
Performance Mix
Joyce SoHo
20 October 1997 / 8 P.M.Troika Ranch will perform "Boxes", for two performances, percussionist and interactive set pieces as part of the Performance Mix series held at the Joyce SoHo this year. This piece reflects our life in New York City, exploring the positive and negative aspects of the intensity of life here. The dancers control the musical score and video imagery by the way in which they bank off of two slanted set pieces.
For more information on our upcoming performances, please stop by http://www.troikaranch.org/performances.html
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.troikaranch.org/
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London
24th October-9th November 1997"Beyond the Screen- Digital Dancing '97" "Beyond the Screen- Digital Dancing '97" will be taking place at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London between 24th October and 9th November with part two scheduled for autumn 1998. Digital Dancing will be offering a variety of forums and platforms for producing and showcasing digital choreographic work including drop-in sessions and presentations. An exciting first venture is a live telepresence performance on October 31st, Halloween, linking up dancers performing simultaneously at the Place Theatre and Riverside Studios. We are delighted to be able to announce that we are inviting applications for bursaries from choreographers and digital artist teams to come and create work in our "cyberstudio" for two weeks. The deadline for applications is officially intended to be Monday 22nd September, which we apologise for, but due to the fact that we are still confirming details with the allocation of of our grant and therefore the lateness of this posting on to this dance list we are making special exceptions for digital applications e-mailed directly to terry@illumin.co.uk and cc-ed to suzanne@illumin.co.uk before 5 pm on Thursday 25th September 1997. For a bursary application form and latest details of events please see- http://www.illumin.co.uk/umbrella97/. Other contact details- Suzanne Kelly (0171 226 0266) Digital Dancing has been supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
email: terry@illumin.co.uk and suzanne@illumin.co.uk
website: http://www.illumin.co.uk/umbrella97/
MAKROLAB - a heterotopia
Rice University Art Gallery
October 26, 3:oo pmDocumenta X is the latest installment of one of the world's most important international art expositions. Presented every five years in Kassel, Germany, the art and artists selected always provoke discussion and controversy. This year's curator, Catherine David, dedicated the exhibition to a rigorous exploration of the politics/poetics of contemporary art, and especially its relationship to globalization and technological overdeterminations. The Houston Center of Photography, together with the Contemporary Arts Museum, has organized a symposium on documenta X, and Johannes Birringer present his new documentary film on MAKROLAB, one of documenta's most provocative technoscientific performances. Birringer's "MAKROLAB - A HETEROTOPIA" explores the futurist politics of a project by Slovene artist Marko Peljhan, namely the construction of a laboratory for the observation of global data transmissions in the electro-magnetic spectrum, a lab that dances on the edges of legality, commercial interest zones, and the military-industrial complex. For more info on Makrolab, visit http://makrolab.ljudmila.org
email: orpheus@merle.acns.nwu.edu
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
Touch
Geneva
11 September 1997K.Danse (choreographer Jean-Marc Matos), together with video artists Cathy Vogan and Marc Guerrini, will perform the first "on line" dance piece made in France, "Touch". It will take place in between Paris ("CitÈ des Sciences" of "La Villette") and Geneva (Switzerland) during the UITM (International Union of Telecommunication Companies) meeting on September 11th. 1997. The connection will explore a possible man-woman love relationship in cyber space (with ISDN lines). For more detailed information please contact the company by e-mail.
email: kdmatos@worldnet.fr
Linz, Austria
8-13 September 1997'The focus of this year's theme is the question as to the position of the individual, the role of the human being in the current phase of the technocultural development'.
email: info@aec.at
website: http://www.aec.at/fleshfactor/index.html
The Anatomy Class
The Lawrence Batley Theatre,Huddersfield.U.K.
17-18th Sept.1997 at 7.30PM pre perf talk on 18th at 6.30pmA programme of four stand alone pieces which combine dance theatre with film/video/computer graphics and live electronics. Featuring performers: Cathy Wilson, Philip Bower, Darren Johnson, Julie Wilson-Bokowiec & Uzume; composers: Mark Bokowiec, Margaret Lucy-Wilkins, Alan Rudkin and special effects artist: Colin Ware.
Tickets available from the box office Telephone 1484 430528
email: Electronicdancetheatre@writeme.com
website: http://www.hud.ac.uk/schools/music+humanities/music/EDT.html
Bryant Park, New York City
September 17, 1997Webbed Feats is a non-profit organization of artists devoted to presenting exciting and unique site-specific performances developed with the participation of the World Wide Web audience. Bytes of Bryant Park is Webbed Feats' premier event. On September 17th there will be a performance in Bryant Park in the Heart of New York City. An extraordinary 6-hour festival of dance, theater, creative writing, improvisations, and original music will unfold in six locations around the park. What makes this performance different is you - the global audience. Your input over the course of the next 11 weeks will shape, form and determine the outcome of the performances. Then, on September 17th, under the artistic direction of Stephan Koplowitz in cooperation with the Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, the whole world will be able to see it for free as it is presented live in the park and cybercast from this site.
email: steve@webbedfeats.org
website: http://www.webbedfeats.org/prod/home.html
Chicago, IL., USA
22-27 September 1997In the decades since McLuhan's observations on media, a profound change has taken place in the arts. As computer technology becomes increasingly widespread and affordable, many artists are asking "Now what?" For years, the challenge for electronic artists has often been the overcoming of technological barriers and the pioneering of new media. Today, we find ourselves wrestling with the more perplexing questions of meaning, content, and social context. Is the medium still the message? How are computers shaping the languages of expression for our age? What can we say now that we could not before? Do these new media fundamentally change our vision of ourselves and the world? How is physical experience being redefined by the virtual? Does advancing technological obsolescence preclude historical continuity? At ISEA'97, people from around the world will meet in Chicago to discuss these questions and many more. Join us and participate in this exciting discourse.
email: isea97reg@artic.edu
website: http://sthelens.neog.com/isea/isea.htm
Los Angeles, California
3-8 August 1997THE annual SIGGRAPH conference -- see the website for details.
email: onlinemail.s97@siggraph.org
website: http://www.siggraph.org/s97/
"Lively Bodies - Lively Machines" - A performance/digital art workshop
Dresden, Germany
August 11 - 17In collaboration with Tanzb¸hne Dresden and Medienwerkstatt Dresden, AlienNation Co. will offer its LBLM (Lively Bodies - Lively Machines) workshop for an intensive 7 day lab at Porjekttheater dresden (Germany). The workshop is open to all interested artists and folks working in multimedia performance, dance, and digital arts, and the experiments during our project will be presented in 3 public installations or performances at the end of the week. This is the second time the workshop is held in Dresden, and participants are invited to register and live on the site of the restored art cololny at Hellerau (Festspielhaus). Rehearsal and experimentation methods can be visited on our website. We will also begin planning a multi-site tour of the workshop (in Europe) during the summer of 1998, linking our lab to other workshops planned by members of DTZ.
email: orpheus2@t-online.de
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
University of Wales College, Newport, UK
5-6 July 1997The term post-biological is intended to cover all aspects of life which are mediated, extended or transformed by technology, including the mind and consciousness. We are interested in the impact of digital technologies, bio technology and artificial life on art, as well as exploring the value of art in understanding cognitive processes, conceptual modeling and theories of mind. The conference is convened in order to enable ideas from a variety of artistic, scientific and other sources to surface, be exchanged and developed in ways which might further our individual practice and research in both art and science.
email: ACES@newport.ac.uk
website: http://caiiamind.nsad.newport.ac.uk/concios.html
Oslo, Norway
5-8 June 1997We already live part-time in cyberspace, and that time is increasing as fast as the quality of the experience is radically changing. The Sixth International Conference on Cyberspace addresses the social, political and cultural implications of cyberspace from a critical as well as practical standpoint. In the nets, there is a growing society that ranges from researchers to Silicon Valley sophisticates to neocyberpunks. 6CYBERCONF offers the opportunity for exchange within and between these confluent and diverse interests and encourages discussion between theoreticians and practitioners.
email: Cyberconf@cyberconf.fou.telenor.no
website: http://cyberconf.fou.telenor.no/cyberconf/
Motherboard/LawHat al-umm
6Cyberconf., Oslo, Norway. Venue TBA
6 June 1997The final event in the Motherboard project. Material from the previous five performances and installations will be reworked into a full performance on 6Cyberconf. in Oslo.
email: amandajs@notam.uio.no
website: http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard/
"SITZEN"
Dresden,Germany. Deutsches Hygiene Museum
June 11, 1997, 7:00 pm"SITZEN" (sitting) is the culminating performance event of a sequence of four site-specific choreographic installations created in several Dresden locations by Aliennation Co. in collaboration with Jo Siamon Salich and members of the Dresden-based group RU-IN. SITZEN is an actuation of several concepts of virtual memory, physical memory, children's games, and deprivations developed in an algorithm of manipulated digital movement images. The movements in physical space (the Museum of Hygiene) activate or still the soft memory on the computer. We examine the clean-ness of excorporated memory and test the mathematical logic of games and neuroses.
email: orpheus2@t-online.de
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
Multimedia and Dance Pedagogy - Developing Expertise
University of Limerick, Ireland
June 23-26th 1997 inclusiveThe European Commission has funded a four day intensive and 'hands on' workshop for invited European delegates. It is free of charge apart from accommodation and travel.The purpose of the workshop is to share current knowledge on dance pedagogy and the creative use of multimedia in developing resources for dance education. CDi and CD ROM authoring machines will be provided by Bedford Interactive and Philips. The course will be run by Bedford Interactive with some input from the University of Alcala de Henares, Spain. Anyone in Europe interested in attending should apply quickly. There are only a few places left.
email: teresa.leahy@ul.ie or 106416.547@compuserve.com
website: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jimofbi
before night falls 1.5
Cleveland Performance Art Festival
Colonial Arcade Grand Ballroom
Cleveland, OH
7 May 1997, 8:00 pmThe second public installation/performance of our new digital stagework-in-progress. "before night falls" will be assembled with its full interfaces in Germany later this summer. At the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the installation will be mounted as a 4-channel video projection with live sound/movement manipulations. Scenography/images/sound/voices and movement by Johannes Birringer, Jools Gilson-Ellis, Joel R. Johnson, Imma Sarries-Zgonc. Whips by Jeongwon Joe.
email: orpheus2@t-online.de
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
Vancouver, BC, Canada
May 14 - 18, 1997Our Bodies, our machines? Extensions of the senses change the way we see ourselves and alter our sense of personal identity. Network communications create new social patterns and revolutionize the "body politic". The pleasure and the anxiety in this cyborging of ourselves through electronic technologies is evidence of the blurred borders between perception and experience. Robots, clones and mutants gestate quickly in the steamy hallways of virtual communities. Welcome to year three of the Electronic Arts Festival, BODY ELECTRIC, a five day arts festival and conference that will examine these themes through exhibitions, performances, lectures, panels and workshops.
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
11-13 April 1997High technology can distribute low culture: no problem. But high culture can persist at a low level of technology: that is how most of it was produced." Raymond Williams put it very well. But, can we still talk about high and low, left and right, north and south in the culture of technology? This April in Atlanta we will discuss technology of performance, technology and race, technology and gender in performance, politics and technology, theatricalization of technology, and technologizing performance. Join the THIRD ANNUAL PERFORMANCE STUDIES CONFERENCE, featuring Guillermo Gomez Pena Elin Diamond Judith Hammera Jane Goodall Jon Erickson Linda Smukler Peggy Phelan Matthew Goulish from Goat Island Phil Auslander Henry Sayre Roberto Sifuentes and many other emerging artists and scholars
email: bqj6782@is4.nyu.edu
website:
before night falls 1.0
Performance Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA, Sheraton
April 11, 7:30 pmA first public installation/performance of our new digital stagework-in-progress."before night falls" will be assembled with its full interfaces in Germany later this summer. In Atlanta the installation will be an improvisation with 4-channel video projection and sound/movement manipulation under adverse circumstances, as the Performance/Technology Conference in fact is not organized to show artistic work and offers no adequate space or technical facilities. We will implement a virtual version of the actual choreographies under development. Scenography/images/sound/voices and movement by: Johannes Birringer, Jools Gilson-Ellis, Joel R. Johnson, Imma Sarries-Zgonc. Whips by Jeongwon Joe.
email: orpheus2@t-online.de
website: http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~orpheus/
From Mouthplace to Live Place
Performance Studies Conference, Atlanta Sheraton
12 April 1997 9amemail: Richard.Povall@oberlin.edu
website: http://timara.con.oberlin.edu/!rpovall/RPHome.htmlFrom Mouthplace to Live Place. A talk on translating a performance work originally conceived as a screen-based interactive work, to an interactive performance space, using realtime performance technologies.
CyberMotion: Exploring Technology Thru Dance
Bountiful, Utah, USA
April 17, 18, 19 1997High School spring dance concert exploring technology through dance. Specifically, computer choreography was a focus and the software LifeForms was used in the project. Students were taught to use the software and assigned to compose an original work on the computer. The computerized choreography was then taught to dancers and the piece was set live. The audience will view both the computer choreography and the live interpretation.
email: bpierce359@aol.com or bpierce@admin.vhs.davis.k-12.ut.us
Eventworks
Massachusettes College of Art, Boston, MA
18 April 1997Troika Ranch will perform four new interactive dance works when we share an evening at the Eventworks festival in Boston on April 18th. We will be performing "Enough Room for Marie", "Bank - Perspectives 1 & 2", and a new solo created for our MidiDancer sensory system called "Cud."
Massachusettes College of Art
North Hall 621 Huntington
Boston, MA
18 April 1997 / 8pmemail: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
Motherboard Staff + Remote Guests
Hyperstate III, Oslo Spectrum, Norway.
30 April 1997, 11pm.The fifth event in the Motherboard project. Of the living and the dead. The living metropolis (Cairo) has grown to such an extent that an estimated four million people have taken to the graveyards as a place of abode. We find a parallel to this in the dying-out rave scene in Oslo. The Motherboard therefore invites local and remote guests to join them at Hyperstate III for music and dance seance. A Cu-Seeme site will be announced for remote participants.
email: amandajs@notam.uio.no
website: http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard/
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway.
8 March 1997. 13.00 (local time)Dance Direction: Amanda Steggell
Dance: Siri Jntvedt, Kristine ÿren
Sound direction: Per Platou
Music: Nood
Costumes: Katarina Barbosa Blad
Slides: Andreas Taby
Lights: Hans Christian Gilje
Prod. Assistant: Ellen RedMotherboard/LawHat al-umm explores the boundaries between western postmodernism and Arabic Islam. This project relates to a new post-oriental era, or rather neo- orientalist era, where "the other" is being expressed - where the virtual and real not only co-exist, but co-evolve in a cultural complexity. This approach seems to be emerging as a result of trans-global crossovers through use of information technology in everyday life.
Disappearing bodies-half veiled truths: Question 216: Asalam alikum. Does a husband have the right to decide who will have his wife's picture? Should he ask before he sends her picture? I am concerned about the evil eye. Answer to question 216: Assalamu alaikum. Only the wife has the right to decide who will have her pictures because that is her property. On the other hand, the husband has the right to decide who will not have his wife's picture. Thank you, assalamu alaikum. Ask the Imam: http://www.islamicity.org
For more details, and a list of MOTHERBOARD events, visit the website at http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard
email: amandajs@notam.uio.no
website:
Amanda Steggell, Per Platou, Ellen Roed + more
Zoo Lounge CafÈ, Oslo, Norway.
22 March 1997 - 2.04The fourth event in the Motherboard project. A juxaposing of Islamic prayer prepartions with western advertising retoric. Installation at the ZooLounge Cafe in Oslo. Keeping clean is a matter for body, mind and soul. The cafe's concrete floor will be adorned with carpets, a digital muezzin will call out five times each day, while washing instructions are available in the toilets. Visit the website during this period to view the cafe from the direction of Mecca.
email: amandajs@notam.uio.no
website: http://www.notam.uio.no/motherboard/
Grid
Arts & Technology Symposium, Connecticut College
February 28th, 1997, 5PMThe company will perform Grid, a dance for four performers, computer controlled lighting and interactive light grid. The title comes from the sensory system in us, a grid of infra-red sensors are used to control the theatrical lighting in response to the positon of the dancers on stage.
email: troika@panix.com
website: http://www.art.net/~troika
bodysinging
Arts & Technology Symposium, Connecticut College
March 1, 1997, 8PMemail: Richard.Povall@oberlin.edu
website: http://timara.con.oberlin.edu/!rpovall/RPHome.htmlPremiere of bodysinging, a performance work for singer/performer, using motion sensing with BigEye and live sampling/processing using LiSa.
London, UK
25-26 October 1996During Dance Umbrella '95 five teams of British choreographers - Mark Baldwin, Sue MacLennan, Yael Flexer, Susan Kozel and Susan Crow - and digital artists pioneered the creation and production of Digital Dancing, during a week of intense collaboration initiated and produced by Terry Braun of Illuminations Interactive. All of the teams have continued to explore the potential of new technology and dance - and all have produced new work. Digital dancing offers a showcase for this work and an arena to debate the implications of this new form. Over two days digital artists and choreographers will be developing and showing recent projects and discussing future developments in dance and new technology. Some of the work will exist only in computers, played on CD-ROM or shared on the Internet. Other pieces wil be more theatrical, fusing digital animation and live performance.
email: comments@illumin.co.uk
website: http://www.illumin.co.uk/umbrella96/digidance/
Theater Lantaren/ Venster, Rotterdam, NL
23-28 September 1996In het kader van R96 de nieuwe verleiding presenteert Lantaren/Venster in de laatste week van september 1996 een - voor Nederland uniek - programma gewijd aan dans & nieuwe media getiteld Future Moves. De subtitel 'verkenningen' verwoordt het karakter van het festival dat nadrukkelijk bedoeld is als een eerste aanzet om het relatief onontgonnen 'dans & nieuwe media-landschap' in kaart te brengen.
email: liez@ipr.nl
website: http://www.ipr.nl/~future-moves/
Summer workshop at the YORKSHIRE DANCE CENTER
5 -17 August 1996
A two week summer workshop creating new dance-led work for computer for independent dance makers, digital artists and composers with Sue MacLennan, Nye Parry, Bruno Martelli and Richard Lord.
School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam, NL
15-16 June 1996This two day international symposium on the connections between the discourses and practices of dance and technology will focus specifically on the impact of new media technologies on dance making/ choreography. (This symposium is taking place in the context of Bodies of Influence.) There will be: Illustrated Papers; Video and Performed Demonstrations; Performances; Discussions
email: sdela@ahk.nl
website: http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela/boi/sympos.htm
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