[spectre] Call for proposals for Cyberformance Symposium

[Annie Abrahams]

Invitation for proposals for the first Cyberformance Symposium
[CyPosium], organised by UpStage.

Since the early 1990s, there has been a growing body of live
performance that is situated online. These events differ enormously in
form and content, are described with multiple terms (such as
cyberformance, remote performance, internet theatre, screen stage,
computer-mediated performance), are staged in a variety of online
environments (such as text-based and graphical chat rooms, sound
broadcast, real time choreography for screen, virtual worlds, games
and purpose-built or existing platforms as for instance facebook) and
engage diverse audiences. The net, however, is forgetful: it loses the
memory of those events, and of the people who lived them, of the
environments and communities who hosted them.

On 12 October 2012, a symposium will be organized by UpStage, where
cyberformers will discuss their online performances with other
artists, researchers and interested participants. Questions we would
like to tackle in CyPosium include: What different kind of events
happened? What did they make possible? What was special about the
event? Why were things done in a certain way and what were the
results?

We invite proposals for presentations about past online performances.
Presentations will be programmed into 30 minute timeslots, should be
no longer than 20 minutes in duration (10 minutes will be scheduled
for questions) and can be done in the Upstage platform (or in another
platform if you wish). Presentations could involve webcasting, showing
archives, talks, etc. A public chat will be available for interaction
between the artists and audience. There will be facilitated
discussions between programmes of presentations, to enable general
discussion around common themes. Everything will be recorded for
archival and documentation purposes.

If you are interested, please submit:

a short bio;
a short abstract of your presentation (not more than one page)
including the platform you wish to use and any relevant information;
one image that represents this past work;
contact email and postal address.

Proposals must be emailed to cyposium at upstage.org.nz by 15 of June 2012.
You will receive news of the CyPosium acceptance by the end of July
and the CyPosium schedule will be announced in September.

Please note that technical and general support will be provided for
presentations in the UpStage platform; if you wish to use a different
platform, you will need to provide your own support.

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