thanks much for your reply..... i am looking at the material soon../... with regards Johannes i n v i t a t i o n > CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY AND DIGITAL PERFORMANCE Brunel University, PERFORMANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR & INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/boiler09.html Wednesday, February 25, 2009 Research Performance Seminar Gaskell Bldg 048 Drama Studio 16:oo Sita Popat / Scott Palmer (School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds) << Dancing Sprites and Digitised Spaces >> This seminar presents a five-year collaboration between performance academics at the University of Leeds and commercial digital artists KMA Creative Technology Ltd. Popat and Palmer discuss how the academy/industry relationship has facilitated knowledge exchange and resulted in a combination of research and consultancy activities, including Dancing in the Streets (2005) and Projecting Performance (2006-8). These projects bring together dance, scenography and digital art, exploring interactive interfaces between dancer, operator and computer. Projecting Performance was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sita Popat is Senior Lecturer in Dance at University of Leeds. Her research interests centre on dance choreography and new technologies. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Scott Palmer is Lecturer in Scenography at University of Leeds. His research interests focus on scenography, lighting design and the interaction between technology and performance. He is the author of the Hodder and Stoughton Essential Guide to Stage Management, Lighting and Sound and he is currently completing A Lighting Reader for the Palgrave Macmillan Theatre Practices series. *** *** *** ****** The Performance Research Seminars - broadcast live from our Brunel Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance -- are available to anyone in the world interested in the subject. The one hour talks and discussions are webcast live (then archived): http://www.dance-tech.net/profile/dancetechTV With many thanks to producer Marlon Barrios Solano, we announce this as the beginning of a partnership between our Center and dance-techTV, and an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting . The channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement (developed via http://www.mogulus.com/). The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand. *************************************************************** Johannes Birringer Director, Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance School of Arts Brunel University West London UB8 3PH UK +44 (0)1895 267 343 (office) http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/condip.html