The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance

2006. 2007. 2008 . 2009. 2009-10 . 2010-11 .2011-12. 2012-13 . 2013-14 . 2014-15

School of Arts – Brunel University – West London

The public is invited to participate in this series of encounters, lectures, screenings, physical and new media workshops and discussions, focussed on new thinking in performance practices, interactivity, technologies, digital/scientific creativity, and cultural production. The lunch time lectures coincide with the Drama Research Seminar series organized by Sue Broadhurst.

For more information contact 01895 267 343 .........Admission free.......... Location: Cleveland Rd, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH

 

winter-spring 2008

Research Performance Seminars / Physical Performance Workshops

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Research Performance Seminar GB08 Drama Strudio 1-2:30 pm

Chikukuango Cuxima-zwa

Doctorate Student - Brunel University

"My Performance Practices and Experiences in the British Context"

 

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Research Performance Seminar GB08 Drama Strudio 1-2:30 pm

Josephine Machon - Brunel University & Paul Woodward - St. Mary's College, West London

"An embodied exchange: performing (dis)closure and the visceral verbal"

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Research Performance Seminar GB08 Drama Strudio 1-2:30 pm

Lali Krotoszynski

Independent Artist

&

Jarbas de Moraes Neto

Mathematician and Programmer.

"Bodyweave LAB- on-line playground for collaborative audio-visual composition"

 

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Research Performance Seminar GB08 Drama Strudio 1-2:30 pm

Sita Popat & Scott Palmer

Leeds University

(cancelled and moved to 2009)

 

PHD Spring Forum, Saturday June 21

The second PhD postgraduate gathering is titled "Thinking Through Practice in Postgraduate Performing Arts Research" and is intended to encourage peer-to-peer exchange and reflections on practice-based research. There is an exciting diversity of research being explored within the "Drama" department at Brunel University . We envision a shared process that includes feedback on content, reflection on research processes and articulation of individual research questions and outcomes. In order to initiate this process and include your thoughts on that subject matter we organize a new platform - The PHD SALON.

The key proposition for the event is to discuss research. In this sense we ask you to contribute on two levels: to introduce your own research as well as being prepared to respond to the thoughts of others. In the coming month expect to hear from us with a more detailed structure for a platform of exchange. For now we would like to trigger some thoughts for a shared discussion: We assume that all of you are involved in practice-based research.

The challenge to combine the dichotomy between the two activities - theory and practice- ask for specific working methods. What are the inventions you make for generating working environments in which your research-creation takes place? Does collaboration play a role in your process and if so how? What structures, even outside of academia, are important for your process of exploration?

The SALON is a one-day event , lasting from 9:30 am to 15:30 pm and will take place in cooperation with Siobhan Davies Dance Studios at the Davies Dance Studios located at 85 St George's Road, London, SE1 6E, as part of the event programming of the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance.

Coordinators: Gretchen Schiller, Sarah Rubidge

contact: gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk

 

 

June 27

Sensual Technologies

at the ICA, London

09:30 am Nash & Brandon Rooms

A one day symposium to highlight the Centre's new series of symposia on body, space, technology and virtuality.

Organized by Stelarc, in cooperation with Johannes Birringer and Sue Broadhurst

Ermira Goro as live avatar in 3D Game "See you in Walhalla" © 2006 Interaktionslabor

 

A one day international symposium organized by the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance, Sensual Technologies features theorists and practitioners of performance, dance, music and electronic media arts. It will explore alternate and aesthetic uses of technology that extend artistic practice beyond the expected, into realms of unusual and heightened experience.

The contributors to this event are leading practitioners and theorists offering diverse perspectives to the debate. They include Roy Ascott, Roger Malina, Jill Scott, Gary Hall, Rachel Armstrong, Paul Brown, Louis-Philippe Demers, Marta De Menezes, Kira O'Reilly, Kathleen Rogers, Paul Sermon, Theodore Spyropoulos, Atau Tanaka and Andrea Zapp.

 

£50 / £47 Concessions / £45 ICA Members.

Includes tea/coffee, lunch and post-symposium drinks.

 

 

autumn 2008

 

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Research Performance Seminar

GB048 Drama Studio 16:oo-17:30 pm

Fahrudin Salihbegovic Nuno

(Brunel University)

"SETLab: Studio for Electronic Theatre and Transcultural Performance Dialog"

 

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

PHD Salon, Research Update

Bit-Lab, Science Centre, 1-5 pm

The third PhD postgraduate gathering on "Performing Arts Research" is intended to encourage peer-to-peer exchange and reflections on practice-based research. We envision a shared process that includes feedback on content, reflection on research processes and articulation of individual research questions and outcomes, presented by postgraduate researchers in the performing arts and adjacent fields.

Coordinator: Gretchen Schiller

contact: gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk

 

 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Research Performance Seminar

GB048 Drama Studio 16:oo-17:30 pm

Visiting Artists Series

(Hellen Sky, performance artist from, Melbourne, Australia and director of Sky and Collababorators, is expected)

"Darker Edge of Night"

 

 

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Research Performance Seminar

GB048 Drama Studio 16:oo-17:30 pm

Corinne Jola

(Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow)

"Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy"

 

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Research Performance Seminar

GB048 Drama Studio 16:oo-17:30 pm

Sarah Whatley

(Centre for Media Arts and Performance, Coventry School of Art and Design)

"Beyond Text: Embodied Analysis and the Digital Archive"

 

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

GB Drama Studio 048 16:30

Barbara LŸneburg

(Music department)

Group Genius Ð Creativity in Performance

(Is Contemporary Music old fashioned?).

 

Part of the presentation will be a concert of about 45 minutes length.

 

 

 

(c) 2008 The Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance, Johannes Birringer (acting director)