Re: Mills College performance/Intermedia name

From: samantha krukowski (samantha@rasa.net)
Date: 12/05/01


Dawn,

You might be interested in checking out the Convergent Media program 
at the University of Texas at Austin.  We've been building a program 
around these very issues.

See www.actlab.utexas.edu, "curricula", for specifics and the whole 
site for more general information.

Best,

Samantha



>Good luck with your performances Peter, sorry we can't see them. Let 
>us know how Isadora holds up.
>
>And I have noticed in two different posts to this list the use of 
>the term "intermedia" which I like a lot. Interesting. We have been 
>thinking about using the term 'hybrid" again after struggling with 
>the slash arts (dance/theater/media) for some years now. Are all the 
>different names we use to describe what we make confusing to people? 
>I am wondering if any on this list consider ourselves to be a 
>movement? (I know that isn't really a proper sentence) A group of 
>like minded folks? Do we have enough in common to "name" ourselves? 
>Or is that supposed to come from someone outside the group? It's 
>like the writer (who I forget now) that wrote about the Judson Dance 
>Theater and maybe was the first to call them post-modern dancers and 
>really talk about their processes and theories. Of course, following 
>the previous posts about writing maybe we better not wait for an 
>interested art writer to come along. We might be dead before that. 
>Just a thought. Has this topic already been thrashed about and I 
>missed it? If so, sorry to bring it up again.
>
>Dawn
-- 
Dr. Samantha Henriette Krukowski
Co-Director, ACTLab/Convergent Media
Department of Radio-Television-Film
University of Texas at Austin  78712
www.actlab.utexas.edu
512.471.4222

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