October 25, 2005
Two Thousand + SIX
Conference on Performance in Mediated Environments
Two Thousand + SIX: A new international conference focusing on performance in technology mediated environments will kick off as part of the 2006 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music (see related post), hosted at the Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen’s University Belfast. The festival is the longest-running new music festival in Ireland that presents cutting-edge new music and features some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.
The "mini-conference" aims to reflect the innovative approach of the festival and will, for the first time, bring together performance practitioners (from music, dance, theatre and new media), composers, and theorists in order to discuss a wide variety of topics on performances that are informed by new technologies.
The "mini-conference" is planned for Saturday, the 29th of April 2006 at SARC in Belfast. Paper sessions will take place in the morning and the afternoon, with two keynote speakers, a lunchtime performance and an evening concert.
Keynote Speakers:
Susan Broadhurst: Sue is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. She is currently Subject Leader of Drama Studies at Brunel University. She is the author of " Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory" (1999); "Digital Practices: A Critical Overview and Neuroesthetic Approach to Performance and Technology (forthcoming, 2005), and "Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (forthcoming, 2006). Sue is also co-editor of the Body, Space & Technology online journal.
Ben Watson: Wire contributor, Trotskyist and Zappaphile, Watson has written extensively on themes such as pop culture, situationism, punk, Adorno, Frank Zappa and improvisation. He is the author of "The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play", “Derek Bailey and the Story of Improvisation”, and “Art, Class and Cleavage”.
Call for papers/presentations:
For this one-day conference we invite proposals for papers that reflect on performance and technology. As this is a short event, a maximum of 16 papers of 20 minutes duration (plus question time) will be accepted. Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due by the 15th of December 2005. Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will be informed by the 15th of January 2006. The registration for the one-day event will be £40 (£15 unwaged). This includes free access to all Sonorities Festival events on the 29th April 2006.
All accepted papers will be published online.
Further information on the conference will be posted in December 2005 on the SARC website.
Submissions and all queries should be directed to:
f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
franzisk[at]lautnet[dot]net
Posted by jo at October 25, 2005 11:40 AM
