September 22, 2005

Symposium on Live Performances and Digital Technologies

Radiator and Digital Cultures Lab are hosting a symposium December 1-4, 2005 in Nottingham, England, that

brings into focus artistic practices of live performance that make use of digital technologies in the form of lens based, networked or locative media and other capturing/processing techniques, i.e. motion tracking, motion capture, wearable and soft interfaces.

The symposium brings together leading dance and media artists, scientists, designers and theorists from different cultural backgrounds and disciplines to debate how the digitisation of the arts has transformed cultural traditions and practices.

I'd love to go to this conference - I might do that. They are covering many of the topics that I'm interested in learning about and exploring. Plus, I've offered to underwrite a local DC-area dance company's use of a number of Internet and interactive technologies for an upcoming performance.