From: Toni Sant [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 05 March 2009 10:11
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Subject: CFP: TaPRA'09 New Technologies for Theatre & Performance

TaPRA Conference 2009

5th Annual Conference 7-9 September 2009 Department of Theatre, Dance and Performing Arts University of Plymouth

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Working Group on New Technologies for Theatre & Performance

 

THEME: Spaces, Technologies, Performance: Same Old, New Old?

 

For the 2009 TaPRA Conference from 7-9 September, at the University of Plymouth, the New Technologies for the Theatre and Performance Working Group invites papers and presentations exploring the theme "Spaces, Technologies, Performance".

 

We are calling for proposals on practice and/or theory based research that consider whether the introduction of new technologies has impacted significantly on the notions of the spaces in which we perform, or are we just inscribing old value systems onto new performance environments, and in doing so constraining the possible 'new'? 

 

Areas for consideration could include but are not exclusive to:-

*         The possibilities and the problems of audience and performer dislocation

*         What is performative about the Internet?

*         Is the seduction of the screen screwing up our chances of real sex?

*         Online virtual worlds as new performance sites 

*         The Disneyfication of real life through a 3D Web and other technologies

*         New technologies for theatre and performance into the second decade of the 21st century

*         Aesthetic perfection in theatre and performance through new technologies

*         Altering the spatial dynamics of performance through new technologies

 

Please send a 250 word abstract/proposal, a short biographical statement, and an outline of technical requirements by 1 April 2009 to the working group conveners: Mary Oliver ([log in to unmask]), Toni Sant ([log in to unmask]) and Carmen Szabo ([log in to unmask]).

 

Papers should take the form of 20 minute presentations followed by discussion. 

 

Practice or performance-based proposals are welcome, as long as they engage thematically and rigorously with the working group theme, but these must be achievable with limited resources and within 20-30 minutes. 

 

The New Technologies working group welcomes participants who do not wish to present a paper this year but would like to attend and contribute to the discussions; please contact the conveners by email upon conference registration to confirm your participation.  

 
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 Dr. Toni Sant
 Lecturer in Performance & Creative Technologies

 School of Arts and New Media
 The University of Hull - Scarborough Campus  Filey Road, Scarborough - YO11 3AZ  United Kingdom
 email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
 
 Applied & Interactive Theatre Guide
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