performance and new media
I am looking for comrades who are working in the performing arts and new media. While "humanities" and "technologies" are deeply committed to each other in environments like HASTAC, I need to convince my Drama Dept. that new media performance is something "actors" and theatre researchers can gain another kind of knowledge from and there is no threat from new media and performance. Anyone with strategies to propose courses and studies would be greatly appreciated. I also think new media and digital artists might be interested in haptics in relationship to embodiment in performance and how choreographic techniques might offer other kinds of non-linear narrative structures that are adaptable and interactive.
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Katherine
UW
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Great topic
Anne Balsamo at USC and Brian Goldfarb at UCSD know a lot about this. You might also ask our favorite HASTAC performance artist/new media artist, Praba Pilar, who is our InfoSpherian (the image in our Digital Media and Learning Competition). She did a major piece at the San Jose Library directed by Adriene Jenik, (another great source). Praba was projected two stories high in the window and answered question as an intelligent agent of the future. Good luck with this, there is great work happening in this area. You might also talk to Bill Seaman at RSDI, Kate Hayles (who is on her way to Duke ---and Bill might be too), Suguro Goto. There's so much!
Thoughts on performance and new media
I'd be interested in brainstorming with you on how a conversation about the connects/disconnects, possibilities & limits of thinking new media and performance together might be generated on HASTAC.org or another forum.
To my mind, there are several interesting starting points for such a convergence:
* locating new media within the history of performance art and/or the use of "old" media in dance and performance.
* theoretical and practical interdisciplinary cross-talk on issues of vital importance to both new media and performance, such as liveness, presence, immersion, embodiment and the senses, dis/simulation, etc
* understanding the importance of a relation to embodied practice and choreography in the construction of convincing 3D animations AND exploring how the malleable physics of virtual worlds opens up new possibilities for choreography and kinesis and new modes of embodiment
* and so on . . .
I'd be interested in collaborating this fall on planning a conference or workshop or CFP for a journal special issue / edited volume on these issues if there's interest.