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SYMPOSIUM: so far… Arts, Spatialisation and Memory Sat 19 April 08, 10am-5pm Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY Speakers Konrad Becker, Institute for New Culture Technologies, & Public Netbase/ t0, Vienna, Austria (Keynote) Dr Anna Fenemore, Pigeon Theatre & University of Leeds Tim Brennan, Artist & University of Sunderland Dr John Levack Drever, Sound Artist & Goldsmiths, University of London Prof. Victor Seidler, Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London Dr Peg Rawes, Art and Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, UCL Dr Axel Goodbody, Reader in German Studies, University of Bath Janek Schaefer, Sound Artist Dr Daniel Hinchcliffe, Head of Visual Arts, ICIA, University of Bath (Chair) Space is a central concern for a broad range of contemporary arts practitioners, and spans many other disciplines. Spatialisation is a useful term at a point when time/space compression and globalisation, brought about by new technologies and high speed travel, affect life – including its cultural output – more than ever. It implies a ‘doing’, a process of enquiry, orientations in time/space. It carries intimations of temporality, implying a relationship to memory – pasts and presents. This event will be of interest to practitioners, academics and students from visual arts, music, theatre, dance, cultural studies, architecture, cultural geography and literature. Keynote Speaker: KONRAD BECKER Based in Vienna, Austria, Konrad Becker is an interdisciplinary communication researcher and Director of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/ t0, and World-Information.org, a cultural intelligence provider. Co-founder and chairman of Public Netbase (1994-2006), he has been active in electronic media as an artist, author, composer curator, producer and organizer. Since 1979, Konrad has been responsible for electronic intermedia productions, exhibitions, conferences and event designs for international festivals and cultural institutions as well as a range of interventions in public space. TIM BRENNAN Tim Brennan’s new exhibition Great Northern Coalfield has been developed in response to ICIA’s 2008 theme of Arts, Spatialisation and Memory. Tim Brennan is an independent practitioner engaged in the notion of discursive practice through: performance, photography, sculpture, writing, drawing, curating and teaching. Since 1987, he has produced a corpus of work including the politics of the gallery and beyond. ANNA FENEMORE Dr Anna Fenemore is a lecturer in Theatre and Performance in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at Leeds University. Her research interests include: spectating embodiment; performer bodywork training; multisensory immersive performance; performance and phenomenology; and theories of performance space/place. She is Artistic Director Pigeon Theatre, an all-women, experimental site-specific performance company who explore the formal structures of space, environment and architecture and the affect of these on the physical spectating experience. JOHN LEVACK DREVER As well as lecturing at Goldsmiths, Dr John Levack Drever regularly presents his sound work internationally in a wide range of contexts including concert hall, radio, internet, cathedral, catwalk, ice cream van, classroom, fine art gallery, theatre, dance, video and for specific sites. Much of his work is collaborative working and he has a special interest in human utterance and environmental sound. VICTOR SEIDLER Professor in Sociology at Goldsmiths, Victor Seidler has published extensively in the areas of social theory, ethics and gender, particularly in relation to men and masculinities. He is also interested in questions of ecology, postmodern identities and the relation of the holocaust to modernity. AXEL GOODBODY Reader in German Studies, at the University of Bath, Dr Axel Goodbody’s principal area of research is the representation of nature in twentieth-century German literature, and more broadly, the cultural construction of ‘nature’ and naturalness. PEG RAWES Dr Peg Rawes teaches History and Theory at The Bartlett, UCL. Philosophical and critical theory informs her research into the aesthetics of modern art and architecture. Specialist research areas include Kantian and post-Kantian aesthetics, 17th century theories of substance and geometry, and theories of materiality and topology. JANEK SCHAEFER Janek Schaefer is a London based sound artist, known for his innovative turntablism and for his interest in audio architectural research. He is concerned with relationships with built environments, such as bringing live sounds into buildings from outside through hidden microphones. 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