<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Apologies for cross posting and the incorrect subject in the last post.<br><br>The schedule and registration (early bird prices) for the networked <br>performance conference Remote Encounters: Connecting bodies, <br>collapsing spaces and temporal ubiquity in networked performance is <br>now online.<br><br>Conference schedule: <a href="http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/schedule" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="35">http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/schedule</a><br>Registration (early bird prices): <a href="http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/registration" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="36">http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/registration</a><br><br>The conference will over its two day sessions and performance evening <br>pull together a number of practitioners and academics who are working <br>in a variety of exciting ways with networks in performance contexts. <br>These will cover web based performance, streaming media, sonic <br>practices, metaverses, custom networked electronics, dance and <br>theatre; each exploring a wealth of topics and themes.<br><br>Full details about the conference are available below.<br><br>------------------------------------<br><br>Remote Encounters: Connecting bodies, collapsing spaces and temporal <br>ubiquity in networked performance<br><br>keywords: performance, networked, body, space, place, time, real, <br>virtual<br><br>URL: <a href="http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="37">http://remote-encounters.tumblr.com/</a><br><br><br>:: Description ::<br><br>Since the internet entered the public domain in the early 90's there <br>has been an explosion in artistic interest in its use as a means, site <br>and context for creative practice. Much of this practice is <br>performative in nature; ether originating from a performance <br>background and using the internet as a new site and/or augmenting <br>aspect of that practice or is a form of practice developed as direct <br>response to the internet and becomes performative to some degree in <br>its spectatorship.<br><br>It has been well established that the internet is not the first or <br>only example of the use of a networked technology repurposed for <br>creative practice. There is a clear time line that can be traced back <br>through the practice of Roy Ascott and his coining of the term <br>Telematic Art in the 1980's to artist's use of satellite networks, <br>telephone and other telecommunication devices as each were invented. <br>Seen in this respect the internet can be considered as one of many <br>networked technologies that has enabled networked performance.<br><br>The internet is unique however in that it is not a singular network <br>type that favours a particular form of media, broadcast or <br>spectatorship. Most famously known as the network of networks it <br>enables multiple protocols of which the world wide web's http is just <br>one, is multimedia in nature and encourages intertextual folding and <br>layering of media, is multi-directional not simply a broadcast <br>communication form, de-centralised in ownership and the majority of <br>its technologies are openly accessible.<br><br>Remote Encounters, a two-day international conference with performance <br>evening, aims to explore the use of networks as a means to enhance or <br>create a wide variety of performance arts. How do networks as a site <br>for performance provide opportunities for us as artists and <br>performers? In particular how can we remotely collaborate, merge <br>geographically separate places and times, reconfigure the space of <br>performance and the relationship between artist and audience?<br><br><br>:: Conference information ::<br><br>Registration:<br>Early bird fee (<a href="x-apple-data-detectors://38" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="38">until January 1st 2013</a>) - academic affiliated £80, non- <br>affiliated £40<br>Late fee - academic affiliated £100, non-affiliated £50<br><br>Location: ATRiuM, Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, <br>University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff, Wales, CF24 2FN.<br><br>Date: <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://43" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="43">11th - 12th of April 2013</a><br><br><br>_________________<br><br><a href="http://www.asquare.org/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="44">http://www.asquare.org/</a><br><a href="http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="45">http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/</a></span></font></body></html>