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EMPAC
LIVE.MEDIA+PERFORMANCE.LAB
August 16 - 22, 2010
EMPAC presents
first summer lab for interactive media in performance, to be held August
16-22 at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Directed
by Johannes Birringer and Mark Coniglio, the workshop offers intensive
training and possibilities for experimentation with mixed reality and
real time architectures, programmable environments, interactive design
and the integration of time-based media into live performance and installation.
The workshop addresses emerging and professional art practitioners,
scientists, researchers, and students from different backgrounds in
performance and new media committed to sharing their interest in developing
a deeper understanding of composing work focussed on real time / interactive
or time-based experiences and multidisciplinary collaborative processes
(video, sound processing, projection design, lighting, choreography
and directing).
Participants will be in residence for the duration of the lab and offered
first class facilities at EMPAC for investigating performance and design
techniques that will develop skills and inspire new ideas for working
in mixed realities and interlinked physical/virtual or distributed aesthetics.
The workshop will include examples and references to international stage
works, choreographic systems, installations and site-specific works,
as well as hands-on experimentation in full resolution with interactive
systems.
Methodologies for the laboratory are conceived by theatre director and
media artist Johannes Birringer, founder of the annual Interaktionslabor
and professor of performance technologies at Brunel University (London),
and Mark Coniglio, artistic co-director of Troika Ranch and creator
of the Isadora software. Both artists are widely recognized for their
pioneering work in the international performance and media network.
Interaktionslabor was last offered on tour in Belo Horizonte, Brasil
(2008), and Birringer’s and Coniglio’s work has been featured
in numerous festivals and exhibitions around the world.
The activities of the lab are open to visitors, and information about
the proceedings and the research process can be found on the EMPAC
website
Résumé and informal letter of application were due: June
30, 2010.
Contact:
Hélène Lesterlin: lesteh@rpi.edu / tel. 518.276.3918
More information:
Skill requirements: Intermediate/advanced experience in performing with
audio/visual technologies and/or programming. Previous experience with
Isadora or Max/MSP recommended. This workshop is geared for those already
working with technology but wishing to improve their skills and get
new perspectives.
It is recommended that participants bring rehearsal clothing and their
own laptop and other tools (camera, recorder, etc.). Digital equipment
will also be available.
WORKSHOP FEE: $500
HOUSING: Participants in the workshop will be able to choose from several
shared or single on-campus housing options, or may organize their own
housing while in Troy.
TRAVEL TO EMPAC
BIOS
Johannes Birringer
Johannes Birringer is an independent choreographer and media artist.
As artistic director of AlienNation
Co., he has created numerous dance-theatre works, videos, digital
media installations and site-specific performances in collaboration
with artists in Europe, the Americas, China, Japan and Australia. He
has taught at several universities in the US, including Yale University,
Rice University, and Northwestern University, and in 2000 he created
the new Dance & Technology MFA at Ohio State University. His books
include Theatre Theory Postmodernism (1989), Media and Performance (1998),
Performance on the Edge (2000), and Performance, Technology, and Science
(2008). In 2005 he co-edited a book on dance and neuroscience (Tanz
im Kopf/Dance and Cognition). As co-founder of ADaPT (Association for
Dance and Performance Telematics), he developed a number of online performances
in the early years of this century; his contributions to online collaborative
networks were recognized by ars electronica in 2005. He has won numerous
awards and commissions, and taught workshops in performance technologies
and composition in many parts of the world. In 2003 he founded the international
Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in a former coalmine in Germany, initiating
long-term research into interactive systems and real time theatrical
processes. In 2006 he was appointed professor of performance technologies
at Brunel University in London, where he directs the Design
and Performance Lab. Recent production include the digital oratorio
Corpo, Carne e Espírito, premiered in Brasil at FIT Theatre Festival
(2008), and Suna no Onna (2007-08), an interactive dance work created
with his London-based lab featuring wearable designs by fashion designer
Michèle Danjoux. His new mixed reality installation UKIYO will
go on European tour in June 2010.
Mark Coniglio
Recognized as a pioneering force in the integration of dance and media,
composer/media artist Mark Coniglio creates large-scale performance
works that integrate music, dance, theater and interactive media. With
choreographer Dawn Stoppiello he is co-founder of Troika Ranch (http://www.troikaranch.org),
a dance theater company committed to creating hybrid, media intensive
performances. As Troika Ranch, they have been honored with a New York
Dance and Performance "Bessie" Award, an honorary mention
at Prix Ars Electronica, and the "Eddy" award from Live Design
magazine.
From the start, Coniglio's artistic practice has included the creation
of custom interactive systems that allow performers to manipulate video,
sound, and light in real-time. His first technological breakthrough
came in 1989 when he created MidiDancer, a wireless system that allowed
a performer to interactively control music. His passion for giving control
to the performer led him to create the award-winning software Isadora®,
a flexible graphic programming environment that provides interactive
control over digital media. Isadora is now the tool of choice for hundreds
of artist's worldwide including such notables as The Wooster Group,
Morton Subotnick, Bebe Miller and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A native of Nebraska, he received his BFA degree in music composition
in 1989 from California Institute of the Arts where he studied with
electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. From 1990-94, he taught courses
in interactive music at CalArts and was an integral member of the Center
for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology. Coniglio is the
recipient of two consecutive ARM Fellowships from Dance Theater Workshop
(2004/05) and was facilitator for that program in 2006. His writings
about new media in performance have appeared in numerous books and journals,
including "New Visions In Performance", "La Scena Digitale:
Nuovi Media Per La Danza" and Movement Research Journal. He relocated
from New York to Berlin, Germany in 2008.
About EMPAC
The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)
opened its doors in 2008 and was hailed by the New York Times as a “technological
pleasure dome for the mind and senses… dedicated to the marriage
of art and science as it has never been done before.”
Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars,
researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative
exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC
operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals
from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas
onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique
technological facility that boasts unrivalled presentation and production
capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds
and the spaces in between.
About Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, founded in 1824, is the nation’s
oldest technological university. The school offers degrees in engineering,
the sciences, information technology, architecture, management, and
the social sciences and humanities. For over thirty years, the Institute
has been a leader in interdisciplinary creative research, especially
in the electronic arts. In addition to its MFA and Ph.D. programs in
Electronic Arts, Rensselaer offers Bachelor degrees in Electronic Arts,
and in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication – one of the
first undergraduate programs of its kind in the United States. The Center
for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies and EMPAC are two major
research platforms that Rensselaer has established at the beginning
of the 21st century.
deadline for enrollment
: June 30, 2010.
Further
notes on design and performance concepts are published on this site.
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