[dance-tech] Re: Brunel University launches new MA Digital Performance
- From: "Johannes Birringer" <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 21:23:00 +0100
Reminder / please distribute::
MA in Digital Performance
A School of Arts postgraduate taught programme in collaboration with the School
of Engineering and Design
School of Arts, Brunel University
West London
Course Conveners: Gretchen Schiller & Johannes Birringer
This new MA programme, starting in AUTUMN 2006, integrates the creative
performing arts with digital technologies. It invites students from theatre,
performance and dance, as well as those from a music, visual arts or computing
technology background to develop high level skills in the emerging and
important field of Digital Performance. Students will develop the expertise to
contribute to, as well as respond to, the rapidly changing performing arts and
creative industries. It draws on the significant academic, creative and
technological strengths from the School of Arts and the School of Engineering
and Design, and has an emphasis on currency, interdisciplinarity and
employability.
The MA provides in-depth practical and theoretical exploration of the field,
led by an international team of leading practitioners and theorists at Brunel
including Johannes Birringer, Steve Dixon, Stelarc, Sue Broadhurst, Barry
Edwards, Helen Paris, Kjell Petersen, Gretchen Schiller and Paul Verity Smith.
Interest in this emergent area has grown steadily both in terms of audiences
for new digital performance works, and in the academic study of its developing
forms and genres, where Brunel is at the forefront. The programme is highly
innovative and situates itself in the emergent fields of practices and
industries contributing to the development of new techniques, genres and modes
of performance creation, design and construction.
Graduates from the programme will be expert researchers and analysers of the
field, and skilled initiators and producers of their own original work.
Cross-media integration and the development of a range of creative, performance
and technological skills is emphasised, and the programme involves practical
and theoretical investigation of areas including multimedia
theatre/dance/performance art, specialist performance software, wearable
design, sensor/actuator technologies and motion capture, reactive and sensitive
environments, and networked, socio-performative and virtual environments.
MODE OF STUDY
Two years, part-time
One year, full-time
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
You should have a good honours degree or relevant professional experience.
Applications from mature and international students welcomed.
Email Gretchen.Schiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx for course information
+44 (0)1895 265548
Email donna.white@xxxxxxxxxxxx for applications
Tel +44(0)1895 267214
Web http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/pg <http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/pg>
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