[dance-tech] Performance Research Seminar Live
- From: "Johannes Birringer" <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:36:52 -0000
i n v i t a t i o n :
Center for Contemporary & Digital Performance Research Seminar Series.
Brunel University, West London
Wednesday February 17th
16:oo GMT
Matthew Causey
(Director of Trinity College Dublin's Arts Technology Research Laboratory).
< The Rise of the Bio-Virtual: Non-place, Disappearance, Indistinction (Life in
the Digital Kamp) >
Venue: Drama Studio Gaskell Bld. 048, School of Arts, Brunel University
Uxbridge/West London, Cleveland Road.
Within the super-saturation of virtuality and technological reproductions in
contemporary digital culture are established zones and terrains of
indistinction and disappearance (digital kamps). These electronic environments
I would nominate as examples of the bio-virtual (perhaps a post-virtual) and
model the fields as a space of bio-politics par excellence. For the virtual is
not simply virtual anymore as its affect within us is haptic and somatic and
leads us to identify the phenomena as a taking place (within the non-place) of
the (bio)virtual. The (bio)virtual or post-virtual is no longer a problem of
the desert of the real, of representational illusions, but an entrance of a new
biopolitics of techno-performativity of doubles and debris veiled through
indistinction, confusion, excess. The subject's role in these digital kamps is
one of disappearance: a public denial and a private deferment. My research
considers the aftermath of the digital revolution and the resulting
bio-political zones of indistinction constructed of bio-virtual doubles,
avatars and digital debris.
Bio
Dr. Causey is Director of Trinity College Dublin's Arts Technology Research
Laboratory (ATRL). ATRL is an interdisciplinary, postgraduate research centre
designed to explore emergent art forms of that are networked, interactive,
multimedia, hybrid, virtual, immersive and ubiquitous. He is the author of
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: from simulation to embeddedness
(Routledge, 2006, 2009). Dr. Causey is currently in production on
AbstractMachines: Staging the Televisual Beckett, which translates Beckett's
late television plays to technologized performance
works.http://www.tcd.ie/drama-film-music/
http://www.tcd.ie/drama-film-music/atrl
For further information on the Series, contact coordinator Gretchen Schiller or
see our website: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler09-10.html
The Center broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars live from the
Drama Studio - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the
subject.
The one hour talks and 30-minute discussions are webcast live on dance tech net
TV (then archived): http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/dancetechTV
This co-production is part of a partnership between our Center and
dance-techTV, and an experiment in collaborative live -streaming (the channel
is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement.
The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs,
LIVE streaming and Video On-demand.
Brunel Center for Contemporary & Digital Performance
Johannes Birringer,
Acting Director / Coproducer dance tech TV
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler09-10.html
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