ANNOUNCING A MAJOR NEW 'DIGITAL PERFORMANCE' ARCHIVING PROJECT

The UK Arts and Humanities Research Board has announced a major funding
award to a joint project by Nottingham Trent and Salford Universities
(UK) to undertake a major collection and analysis of digital performance
events and developments throughout 1999.  The project will also trace
and archive antecedents from the years 1990-1998, thereby recording a
permanent history
of digital performance in the last decade of the twentieth century.

Steve Dixon (Salford) and Barry Smith (Nottingham Trent) will:
1. collate an extensive searchable database.
2. document on video exemplars of digital performance staged in 1999.
3. create an interactive DVD-ROM that archives and critically examines
significant examples of digitally-related performance.
4. produce a written word publication presenting a critical overview of
the field.
 
The research will focus upon:
a) current innovations in digital performance, and new emerging genres
(from theatrical productions and live art installations that incorporate
digital media, to cyberspace performances and webcam events, interactive
drama, and performative virtual environments such as MUDs, MOOs and
IRC).
b) the use of computer technologies to document and analyse performance
(performing arts databases, websites, mail-lists, academic CD-ROMs,
laser discs etc.).

Further information (URLs etc) will be posted to the main international
performance lists. The project will be advertising for a post-doctoral
Research Fellow.  The co-directors of the project would be interested to
establish initial contact with practitioners, critics and academics in
the field and to receive details of forthcoming digital performance
projects.

Please email
Steve Dixon [log in to unmask]
Barry Smith [log in to unmask]




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