Hybridity and New Media Performance: The intersections between Performance and Science
Erik Schmidt Director of Google said that he thought that the next innovations in the digital field would only come if the ‘luvvy’ and the ‘boffin’ begin to work together. In performance new and applied technologies are implicitly embedded; should we not now be asking how we can use them to expand the performance paradigms beyond performance as a discrete artform and towards applications and innovations that are world changing?
We are calling for papers (20 minutes), provocations (10 minutes) and practice-as-research presentations (30 minutes) that address the move towards the cross-pollination between art and science and/or inspire new fields of collaboration.
The themes that are anchored in the new aesthetics of new media in theatre and performance could include but are not exclusive to:
* Performance and Electronics/Engineering: The impact of new communication systems on new
performance paradigms.
* Performance and Geometry: The (re)configuration of space. Moving from corporeality to virtuality and
vice versa.
* Performance and Neuroscience: New interpretations of human perception and interactive performance.
* Performance and Medicine: The potentialities of accessing, ‘transforming’, and ‘modifying’ the human
body.
* Performance and Biology: Human meets non-human. Tissue culture and the ethical concerns of
performance that has no physical boundaries.
* Performance and Computer Science: (Re)defining the role of the audience. From passive spectator to
active participant. The beginning of virtual community/the end of physical participation.
Confirmation of interest and abstracts/proposals of maximum 300 words, a short biographical statement, and an outline of technical requirements should be sent to the convenors Eirini Nedelkopoulou ( [log in to unmask] and Mary Oliver ([log in to unmask]) by 27th April 2012.
We welcome questions and conversations prior to this date if any colleagues need advice and/or clarification on any aspect of the above.
Please note that our group also welcomes participation from colleagues who do not wish to submit papers or other presentations and those from other disciplines whose work talks to these themes and subject field.
For further details about TaPRA and this year's conference www.tapra.org
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