The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance and DAP-Lab,
School of the Arts, Brunel University (West London)
announce:
UKIYO Laboratory
May 2 ? May 8, 2009
Antonin Artaud Building
The UKIYO workhop in dance/performance, design and network technologies
features artists and researchers from the DAP-Lab and its Japanese
partner-guests from INETDANCE Japan/Keio University (Tokyo), as well as several
guest artists including Michael Takeo Magruder, Elegant Child, Keiko Courdy &
Danielle Wilde
The project involves collaborative exploration, research and experimentation
conjoining artistic, technological and scientific disciplines. Based on a
design libretto for the composition of a choreographic installation ? "Ukiyo"
(Moveable World) ? the workshop develops performance ideas for linking
physical performance spaces with virtual spaces/Second Life, and a diverse
range of innovative wearable design and programming concepts, including:
? choreographic movement decomposition
? interactional design, audio processing and polyphonic wearables
? photographic/videographic image composition for interactional performance
? scenographic concepts for interactional choreography in networked
virtual environments (telematic and Second Life)
? avatar performance and animation/anime
? programming of mixed reality environments
? analysis of sensory processing, polyphonics, and multimodal perception
The workshop takes place every day from 14:oo to 22:oo in the Artaud Studios.
Interested observers are welcome. On Friday May 8, 14:oo - 22:oo, the team
conducts open rehearsals presenting key principles and organizational methods
of the workshop.
The UKIYO project will be conducted in 2009- 2010, resulting in several public
exhibitions, a second workshop to be held in Tokyo (November 2009) possibly
featuring a conference ccordinated by Prof. Miki Wakamatsu and Yukihiko
Yoshida, and the creation of an online research archive. In 2010 the UKIYO
installation will tour in Europe and Japan.
We invite other institutions and art centers to get in touch with us about
potential residencies and research partnreships.
Antonin Artaud Building, Studio 101, Science Park off Cleveland Road, next to
BitLab.
Contact: Birringer +44 (0)1895 267 343 johannes.birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Website: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ukiyo.html
This project is supported by the PMI2 Connect /British Council Research
Cooperation Awards and a grant from The Japan Foundation.
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Johannes Birringer,
artistic director, DAP -Lab
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ukiyo.html
Photo (c) Paul Verity Smith / DAP
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HOW TO GET TO BRUNEL UNIVERSITY?
We're accessible via the Metropolitan line.
This is how you get to campus from Uxbridge Station:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/287/Campus%20Map/uxmapwalk1.jpg
School of Arts located in the Gaskell building (west side of campus, see map):
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/287/where_pdfs/campusmap.pdf
For the Artaud, see
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/condip2.html
Further directions, maps, and parking information:
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/where/ux/uxacc
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