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MIDAS: Methodological Innovation in Digital Arts and Social Sciences
Symposium and Performance
Date: 18th July 2014
Time: 12.30 pm – 5.00 pm
Venue: Brunel University, London, UB8 3PH,
(Antonin Artaud Building AA001)
MIDAS aims to map, exploit and extend the synergies between the digital arts and social sciences to develop an innovative methodological framework capable of capturing a more holistic understanding of embodiment.
The Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the:
• London Knowledge Lab, IOE (Carey Jewitt, Sara Price, Anna Xambo)
• Contemporary and Digital Performance Studio, Brunel (Sue Broadhurst)
• Digital Fashion Studio, London College of Fashion (Douglas Atkinson)
• Information Experience Design, Royal College of Art, (Kevin Walker)
Project Information: MIDAS.ioe.ac.uk, follow us on twitter @MIDAS_LKL
This MIDAS Symposium and Performance is the third in a series of four. It will include a mix of performance/s, presentations and discussion to explore the synergies, challenges, and potentials for new interdisciplinary insights into digitality, embodiment and performance. It will also help to inform and direct the analysis of MIDAS.
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Programme
12.30 – 1.00 Lunch
1.00 - 1.15 Introduction – Professor Sue Broadhurst and Professor Carey Jewitt
1.15 – 5.00 Body and the Digital: Approaches to interdisciplinarity, embodiment and performance
1.15 - 1.45 - ‘Interrogating Embodiment, Aliveness & Agency in Digital Spaces’ Presentation – Stelarc
1.45-2.45 Performance/s – Dr Dani Ploeger and Francis Wilson
2.45 – 3.00 Coffee break
3.00 – 3.30 ‘Soft Circuits, Smart textiles and Mobile Video in Participatory Performance’, Presentation and Q&A – Dr Camille Baker
3.30 – 4.00 'Becoming virtual', Presentation and Q&A – Dr Olinkha Gustafson-Pearce
4.00 – 5.00 Closing Discussion: Future directions -
Open debate led by Professor Tom Betteridge and Professor Sue Broadhurst
Prof Sue Broadhurst,
School of Arts,
Brunel University,
London,
UB8 3PH, UK
Direct Line: +44(0)1895 266588
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