[spectre] Remote Encounters - this Thursday and Friday, 11/12 April 2013

[Garrett Lynch]

Apologies for cross posting.

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Remote Encounters: Connecting bodies, collapsing spaces and temporal  
ubiquity in networked performance

keywords: performance, networked, body, space, place, time, real,  
virtual

URL: http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/


:: Description ::

Since the internet entered the public domain in the early 90's there  
has been an explosion in artistic interest in its use as a means, site  
and context for creative practice.  Much of this practice is  
performative in nature; ether originating from a performance  
background and using the internet as a new site and/or augmenting  
aspect of that practice or is a form of practice developed as direct  
response to the internet and becomes performative to some degree in  
its spectatorship.

It has been well established that the internet is not the first or  
only example of the use of a networked technology repurposed for  
creative practice.  There is a clear time line that can be traced back  
through the practice of Roy Ascott and his coining of the term  
Telematic Art in the 1980's to artist's use of satellite networks,  
telephone and other telecommunication devices as each were invented.   
Seen in this respect the internet can be considered as one of many  
networked technologies that has enabled networked performance.

The internet is unique however in that it is not a singular network  
type that favours a particular form of media, broadcast or  
spectatorship.  Most famously known as the network of networks it  
enables multiple protocols of which the world wide web's http is just  
one, is multimedia in nature and encourages intertextual folding and  
layering of media, is multi-directional not simply a broadcast  
communication form, de-centralised in ownership and the majority of  
its technologies are openly accessible.

Remote Encounters, a two-day international conference with performance  
evening, aims to explore the use of networks as a means to enhance or  
create a wide variety of performance arts.  How do networks as a site  
for performance provide opportunities for us as artists and  
performers?  In particular how can we remotely collaborate, merge  
geographically separate places and times, reconfigure the space of  
performance and the relationship between artist and audience?


:: Keynotes/Key performers ::

Elif Ayiter - Sabanci University and Editor of Metaverse Creativity (http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=179/ 
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Marc Garrett - Furtherfield (http://www.furtherfield.org/)
Annie Abrahams - Artist (http://bram.org/)

Also including: Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, Patrick Lichty, Bibbe  
Hansen and Second Front, Jerome Joy, Paula Crutchlow and Helen Varley  
Jamieson, Prof. Dr. Stahl Stenslie, Tony Olsson, Andreas Gøransson and  
David Cuartielles, Sander Veenhof, Heidi Saarinen and Ian Willcock,  
Elizabeth Leister, Cassandra Tytler, Rea Dennis and Magda Miranda,  
Ximena Alarcón, Ivani Santana, Beatriz Albuquerque, Kate Genevieve,  
Giulia Ranzini, Christina Papagiannouli, Giovanni Boccia Artieri,  
Laura Gemini and Federica Timeto, Erik Geelhoed, Phil Durrant, Tina  
Mariane Krogh Madsen.

Full schedule online here:
http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/schedule

Registration:
Fee - academic affiliated £100, non-affiliated £50
http://remote-encounters.eventbrite.co.uk/


:: Conference information ::

Location: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries,  
University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN.

Date: 11th - 12th of April 2013


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