SHIFTS'00- Shifts in Choreography - THE PROGRAM
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What: SHIFTS'00 - Shifts in Choreography
When: 15th /1/2000; 2-10pm
16th /1/2000; 2-8pm
Where: Chisenhale Dance Space
64-84 Chisenhale Road
E3 5QZ London
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SHIFTS is a meeting of like minds.
It aims to gather together individuals from all over Britain, Europe and
further afield, who work or are interested and receptive to ideas generated
from within collaborative performance. These ideas cover topics as far
ranging as multimedia performance technologies, dance and site specific
installation work. SHIFTS hopes to broaden the scope of the subject, which
is choreography. A proposition that choreography is concerned with 'the art
of arranging information in time & space' allows for as broad a conversation
as possible and so becomes subject to a range of topics, which may
ordinarily be disregarded.
SHIFTS - Background
SHIFTS'99 took place on 28th February 1999 at the Backspace studio (London)
as the official sister event to IDAT '99 (International Dance and Technology
conference). Due to an extremely positive and welcome response, Barriedale
Operahouse have decided to make SHIFTS a yearly event.
We hope to echo last year's successful recipe of providing a diverse and
high quality program within a relaxed atmosphere of discussions,
web-broadcasts, talks and of course, beer and bagels.
SHIFTS - The program:
Talks / Lecture-Demonstrations
Paul Filmer
Paul Filmer is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Goldsmiths' College and
Consultant Sociologist at Laban Centre, London.
Working title: Ordering movement: historical and contemporary perspectives
on the sociological significance of choreography in social and art dance.
Richard Bleasdale
Show-control / currently responsible for the show-control in the Millennium
Dome; London
Judith Palmer
Chair of the poetry society and reviewer of performance art; London
(unconfirmed.)
Remko Scha
Professor in Computational Linguistics at The University of Amsterdam
Remko Scha will present a project, which he is worksing on in collaboration
with Arthur Elsenaar, who developed a technology that controls the muscles
of his face.
Matt Locke
Matt Locke is Artistic Director of TEST Digital Research Facility and
lectures on Visual Culture and Technology at Huddersfield University. His
presentation 'Temporary Intimate Zones - public spaces and electric
communication' will look at the impact that the development of electric
communication in the nineteenth century had on Victorian society, and draw
some parallels with the development of networked mobile communications in
contemporary society, with a focus on the relationships between public
spectacle and private communication.
Luke Jerram
Artist working on developing a medium which works with imprinting imagery
directly onto the retina; Bristol. Warning: strobe light will be used during
the talk for a short time
Richard Povall
Richard Povall has been involved with experimental electronic media for
almost twenty years. He is a multidisciplinary composer, researcher, and
educator. Until the end of 1999 he was Director of the Division of
Contemporary Music and Associate Professor of Computer Music and New Media
at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (Ohio, US)
map (Pete Gomes / Marvin Ayres)
map are creating audio visual work that combines moving image and sound.
Their installation 'sensory' address the ideas behind and methods of
incorporating artificial life sequences and computer generated images to
their work. This can currently be seen at Cap Gemini in Shaftesbury Avenue;
London (http://bak.spc.org/numinous/sensory)
Blast Theory
Blast Theory is a group of four artists based in London who make live
events, installations and new media work. Their current project - Desert
Rain - is a game, an installation and a performance that uses a
Collaborative Virtual Environment to look at the Gulf War. It will come to
London at the Riverside Studios in May.
PRESENTATIONS
Barry Edwards - Director Optik
Research Director Performance Arts - Brunel University, UK
Barry Edwards will discuss aspects of the techniques and structures
involved, which have connections to complexity and chaos theories, as well
as to wider issues such as actuality, immediacy, spontaneity.
Nick Rothwell -CASSIEL
www.cassiel.com - performer/improvisor of Systems Music for dance: live
electronic soundscapes with a pulse. Previously worked with Scottish Dance
Theatre and on composers/choreographers exchange, South Bank.
Demonstrations: Pulse Sequencer software (interactive symbolic sequencing
system written in MAX). Buchla Thunder (bird-of-prey shaped touch-sensitive
gestural MIDI controller)
Sita Popat
PhD research student at Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire. She is
studying interactivity in the dance-making process using the Internet, and
she will be presenting the practical side of her research: The Hands-On
Dance Project (http://goehr.leeds.ac.uk/sita/hands-on/)
Andy Clark - 'Dance Project' (Micro-commission)
Andy Clark will present The Dance Project - an interactive multimedia piece
in which the user controls the choreography of an on-screen "virtual" dancer
in real time. It is intended as a serious choreographic tool, but is
intuitive enough to be used and enjoyed by a non-specialised audience on the
level of computer game.
Susan Braodhurst
Author of Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and
Theory (published by Cassell/Continuum
Susan Broadhurst will be presenting a planned project using magnetic motion
capture.
Volkmar Klien
PhD in Electronic Compositions; City University. Presenting the custom-made
software, which is currently conducting and shaping most of Barriedale
Operahouse's installations and performances.
INSTALLATIONS
Nic Sandiland
choreographer/installation artist; London
Nic Sandiland is presenting the initial stages of, "RADAR". This is a small
ultrasonic radar set up to measure the public's location in the space. The
installation takes this information to construct a giant radar screen which
is mapped back onto the space through a video projection. RADAR will be
fully developed as an interactive choreographic installation for both
children and adults at the South Bank Centre in July.
Stephan Silver
Stephan Silver will present a small version of his past work "Virtuoso"
map (Pete Gomes / Marvin Ayres)
map are creating audio visual work that combines moving image and sound.
Their installation 'sensory' addresses the ideas behind and methods of
incorporating artificial life sequences and computer generated images to
their work. (http://bak.spc.org/numinous/sensory)
Sophia Lycouris - PhD; artistic director kunstwerk-blend
An installation/live performance piece, which addresses limitations in the
use of the physical body and digital/internet-based technology as part of
live performance contexts.
Graham Clayton - GRAVITY MAKES ME SAD - (Microcommission)
GRAVITY MAKES ME SAD comes from research into developments in sports science
to monitor athletes' response times to aggressive challenge.
The creation of this has been made possible by North West Art Board, IDEA
and DS99.
MICROCOMMISSIONS
Blast Theory - Sidetrack
Sidetrack is a 30 second excerpt from a movie chosen at random. The choices
involved in that excerpt are governed by a search for the unexpected or the
peripheral, shots that seem to come from (or be headed to) elsewhere. It's
a search for the hidden beauty in the everyday, for the unspoken moods and
sensations lurking beneath the surface.
Graham Clayton - Gravity makes me sad
(see under installations)
Andy Clark - support for the ongoing 'Dance Project'
(see under presentations)
CD-ROMS/Internet
Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies - produced by ZKM
Artintact5: Forced Entertainment - produced by ZKM
CD-ROM by Ruth Gibson
SHFITS'00 - Time Schedule
SAT:
Main space:
2 00: doors open
2 15 - 2 30: opening/introduction
2 30 - 4 00: Presentations/Installation Introduction:
Volkmar Klien / Barry Edwards / Sita Popat / Nic Sandiland /
Susan Broadhurst / Stephan SIlver
4 00 - 4 40: Paul Filmer
4 40 - 4 59: buffer zone/break
4 59 - 5 00: Blast Theory's film (screening 1)
5 00 - 5 30: Richard Bleasdale
5 30 - 6 00: map (talk & introduction to their installation)
6 00 - 6 40: Richard Povall
6 59 - 7 00: Blast theory's film (screening 2)
7 00 - 10 00: buffer zone / continuations of informal presentations / party
/ installations (PDE,…)
small space (installations):
3 00 - 5 30: Stephan Silver
6 00 - 10 00: map
SUN:
2 00 - 2 15: Introduction
2 15 - 2 45: Blast Theory talk
2 45 - 315: Luke Jerram
3 15 - 4 30: Presentations/Installation Introductions:
Nick Rothwell / Sophia Lycouris / Graham Clayton / Andy Clark
4 30 - 5 10: Matt Locke
5 15 - 5 45: Judith Palmer (unconfirmed.)
5 45 - 5 59: buffer zone/break
5 59 - 6 00: Blast Theory's film (screening 3)
6 00 - 7 00: Remko Scha
7 00 - 8 00: Open
small space (installations):
2 00 - 4 30: Graham Clayton
5 00 - 8 00: Sophia Lycouris
Best wishes,
The SHIFTS team
Michael Klien; Joukje Kolff; Nicholas Mortimore
PS:
Please feel free to bring film material of your work, which you want to
show. (There will be video-projectors and monitors 'scattered' throughout
the spaces)
PPS:
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