hello
Most of you know that the 'dance and technology zone'
(http://www.art.net/~dtz) drifted into the space of the relatively out of
date a few years ago ("new" online articles as of July 1998 really have
lost the right to be labelled as such ! ). Scott Sutherland (also the
dance-tech list manager) last year stepped in with some new ideas and an
aim to maintain -- either updating, archiving or transforming or some
combination -- the current site. If you have visited it recently, you will
see his front page note regarding this transitional phase, etc.
Scott, Mark and I periodically exchange mails regarding progress and
assessing next moves, etc. None of us were/ are funded to do this work, so
it has to move at its own special pace. The other day I pointed out the
Digital Performance Archive site out to him and think it's worth also
reminding those of you on the list who are researching this hybrid field
that the Digital Performance Archive (http://dpa.ntu.ac.uk/dpa_site/), was
funded in the UK to trace "the rapid developments taking place which
combine performance activity with new digital technologies -from live
theatre and dance productions that incorporate digital projections, to
performances that take place on the computer-screen via webcasts and
interactive virtual environments. The Archive also collates examples of how
computer technologies are being used to create, document or analyse
performance - from software applications for choreography and theatre
design to specialist websites, e-zines and CD-ROMs."
The site has an impressive bibliography (including online articles) and
cross-referenced list of artists/ practitioners -- it is a must stop for
any of you doing research.
The other must stop -- comes back to this email list that has been in
business now for at least eight or nine years if not more and there are
seven years of searchable list discussions archived and searchable by
subject, date, author and thread currently accessible through this page:
http://art.net/~dtz/mailarchive.html
Since 2000, Scott Sutherland has implemented a more robust automated system
so I think for those of you who do use this facility you will find these
archives slightly different than the earlier ones... either way, culling
through some of these discussions is a potent way to begin your research
projects into this field of dance/ technology. For those of you who are new
to this list, you may find many of your questions have been asked and
answered before -- not that they aren't worth asking again of course.
All the best,
Scott
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