Could be interesting?
BTW there are some encoding problems with this mail, I believe the
entrance fee for the festival is £40/£15, not £340/£315.
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Sorry for X posting.
It didn't seem to get to rhizome when I last posted it..??
Two Thousand + SIX
<<< A new international conference focusing on performance in=20
technology mediated environments >>>
This new conference will kick off as part of the 2006 Sonorities=20
Festival of Contemporary Music (www.sonorities.org.uk), hosted at the=20
Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen=92s University Belfast=20
(www.sarc.qub.ac.uk). The festival is the longest-running new music=20
festival in Ireland that presents cutting-edge new music and features=20
some of the most thought-provoking and controversial musicians.
The "mini-conference" aims to reflect the innovative approach of the=20
festival and will, for the first time, bring together performance=20
practitioners (from music, dance, theatre and new media), composers,=20
and theorists in order to discuss a wide variety of topics on=20
performances that are informed by new technologies.
The "mini-conference" is planned for Saturday, the 29th of April 2006=20
at SARC in Belfast. Paper sessions will take place in the morning and=20
the afternoon, with two keynote speakers, a lunchtime performance and=20
an evening concert.
Keynote Speakers
Susan Broadhurst Sue is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts.=20
She is currently Subject Leader of Drama Studies at Brunel University.=20
She is the author of " Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of=20
Contemporary Performance and Theory" (1999); "Digital Practices: A=20
Critical Overview and Neuroesthetic Approach to Performance and=20
Technology (forthcoming, 2005), and "Performance and Technology:=20
Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (forthcoming, 2006).=20
Sue is also co-editor of the Body, Space & Technology online journal.
www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artstaff/drama/susanbroadhurst
Ben Watson. Wire contributor, Trotskyist and Zappaphile, Watson has=20
written extensively on themes such as pop culture, situationism, punk,=20
Adorno, Frank Zappa and improvisation. He is the author of "The=20
Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play", =93Derek Bailey and the Story of=20
Improvisation=94, and =93Art, Class and Cleavage=94.
http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/index.htm
Call for papers/presentations:
For this one-day conference we invite proposals for papers that reflect=20
on performance and technology.
As this is a short event, a maximum of 16 papers of 20 minutes duration=20
(plus question time) will be accepted.
Abstracts (max. 350 words) are due by the 15th of December 2005.
Presenters of accepted papers/presentations will be informed by the=20
15th of January 2006.
The registration for the one-day event will be =A340 (=A315 unwaged). This=
=20
includes free access to all Sonorities Festival events on the 29th=20
April 2006.
All accepted papers will be published online.
Further information on the conference will be posted in December 2005=20
on the SARC website:
www.sarc.qub.ac.uk
Submissions and all queries should be directed to:
f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
franziska[at]lautnet[dot]net
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f r a n z i s k a s c h r o e d e r
Initiatrice of "Two Thousand + SIX"
Performance Technology Conference
franziska_at_lautnet.net
Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music
www.sonorities.org.uk
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