Johannes,
Thank you for the in-depth reports on these conferences. It is
particularly great to have someone with your language skills be able to
sense what is going on in both the U.S. and Germany. I would love to hear a
couple of your thoughts comparing the theory work in Europe and the U.S.
Yes, it was too bad there was not more techno-theory at the CORD
conference, but that is understandable because it was cross-scheduled with
the "body/machine" conference going on in Toronto (which featured the other
half of the usual suspects who were not in New York for the AdApt
presentation). I gave a paper at CORD (on globalization and the myth of
authenticity), but saved my techno-talk (on human colonization of virtual
spaces) for Toronto. I was only at each conference for a brief time with all
the flying, so I cannot give much of a report.
The other recent U.S. conference which was interesting for
dance/tech was the IEEE-sponsored Multimedia Technology and Applications
conference at UC-Irvine. Lisa Naugle's presence on the organizing committee
helped to gather a number of strong dance/tech and performance/tech people
(Yacov Sharir, Isabel Valverde, Curtis Bahn and Tomie Hahn, and others). It
had a curious feel about it because it was about half performance-tech
people and half engineers and software designers who do not work in anything
resembling performance, but somehow the mix stimulated some excellent
discussion and mutual respect. Thanks to Lisa and to organizer John Tabor
for all their efforts.
Kent De Spain
Johannes Birringer wrote:
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