January 23, 2006

Johannes Birringer Audio Interview

I interviewed Johannes Birringer this morning. For more than two decades, Johannes has been working in theater, dance, performance art and multimedia collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic. He has served in numerous capacities including choreographer, curator, conference organizer, researcher, professor, volunteer, writer and speaker.

Click here to listen to audio interview (MP3 format - 15.08 MB - 32:57 Minutes)

Background

Dr. Johannes Birringer is a German-born performance and media choreographer currently residing in Houston, Texas, London, England, and Schmelz, Germany.

Johannes received his MA and Ph.D. in literature and theater from Trier University in Germany.

For more than two decades, he has been working in theater, dance, performance art and multimedia collaborations on both sides of the Atlantic. He has served in numerous capacities including choreographer, curator, conference organizer, researcher, professor, volunteer, writer and speaker.

- Dr. Johannes Birringer is currently principal research fellow at The School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham England. And in March 2006 will assume the chair/professorship in Performance Technologies at Brunel University in London.

- In 1999, he was appointed the head of the then new dance and technology program at Ohio State University (OSU) where he developed a new Master of Fine Arts curriculum in dance technologies and initiated the Interactive Performance Series (IPS).

- Johannes is the artistic director of AlienNation Company, a multimedia ensemble, founded in 1993, that collaborates on site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects.

- In 2003, he founded the Interaktionslabor Göttelborn, an annual international workshop dedicated to research, performance and software application development in interactive and networked media technologies.

- And this past December, Johannes organized the Digital Cultures Lab in Dance Technologies.

- And he is the co-creator of the new Dance-Tech Discussion List.

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