Symposium - BST, Dept of Performing Arts, Brunel University

From: Susan Broadhurst (Susan.Broadhurst@brunel.ac.uk)
Date: 05/11/02


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Could this information please be forwarded to the list         

  **APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING**

**BODY, SPACE + TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP**
                  2002 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

As part of its two year research project AiPA (Advanced Interactivity in 
the Performing Arts) the Department of Performing Arts' BST Research 
Group is hosting four symposia with guest speakers. Each speaker is an 
expert in a field related to the Group's current research activity covering 
theoretical and practical investigation of the real and the virtual in 
contemporary performance composition / production.

The 2002 series is being opened by Professor Philip Auslander, 
internationally acclaimed theorist and author of 'From Acting to 
Performance: essays in modernism and postmodernism' and 'Liveness: 
performance in a mediatized culture'.  

The BST Symposia are one hour lunch time events open to all.
The first Symposium will held in the University's newly opened Graduate 
School on Uxbridge Campus.

**Speaker: Professor Philip Auslander**
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta

Title of talk: 'Humanoid Boogie: Reflections on Robotic Performance'.

Time: Tuesday May 21 1-2pm 

Location:  Lecture Theatre PH005 Graduate School

Forthcoming speakers are Petra Kuppers, Artistic Director of the 
Olimpias Research Project Rhode Island USA, Vazkressia Vicharova, Director 
of the Theatre Department of New Bulgaria University Sofia and former 
director of the Scottish Dance Theatre, Tamara McLorg (details 
will be provided of title, date and location at a later date).

Body, Space + Technology Research Group
Sue Broadhurst
Barry Edwards
Ross McKim [Rambert School]
Helen Paris

Enquiries Barry Edwards - Email <barry.edwards@brunel.ac.uk> Tel: 4486 or 
Sue Broadhurst - Email <susan.broadhurst@brunel.ac.uk> Tel: 4489

                Brunel's Department of Performing Arts on-line          
                                                   Journal: 
  
                             **Body, Space & Technology**

        URL:  http://www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/pfa/bstjournal/index.htm

        A journal covering a diversity of critical research
        across a range of contemporary art's practices in 
        relation to the body, space or technology



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