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> >SHIFTS'00- Shifts in Choreography - THE PROGRAM > >!!!!!!!!Please register to attend!!!!!!!! >What: SHIFTS'00 - Shifts in Choreography >When: 15th /1/2000; 2-10pm > 16th /1/2000; 2-8pm >Where: Chisenhale Dance Space > 64-84 Chisenhale Road > E3 5QZ London >Admission: voluntary donations between 0-5£ (+free bagels/cheap beer!) - but >you'll need to register!!!!!!! >To register send mail to: boh@metronet.co.uk or call ++44 (0) 181/858 0681 >------------------ > >SHIFTS is a meeting of like minds. >It aims to gather together individuals from all over Britain, Europe and >further afield, who work or are interested and receptive to ideas generated >from within collaborative performance. These ideas cover topics as far >ranging as multimedia performance technologies, dance and site specific >installation work. SHIFTS hopes to broaden the scope of the subject, which >is choreography. A proposition that choreography is concerned with 'the art >of arranging information in time & space' allows for as broad a conversation >as possible and so becomes subject to a range of topics, which may >ordinarily be disregarded. > >SHIFTS - Background >SHIFTS'99 took place on 28th February 1999 at the Backspace studio (London) >as the official sister event to IDAT '99 (International Dance and Technology >conference). Due to an extremely positive and welcome response, Barriedale >Operahouse have decided to make SHIFTS a yearly event. > >We hope to echo last year's successful recipe of providing a diverse and >high quality program within a relaxed atmosphere of discussions, >web-broadcasts, talks and of course, beer and bagels. > > >SHIFTS - The program: > >Talks / Lecture-Demonstrations > >Paul Filmer >Paul Filmer is a Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Goldsmiths' College and >Consultant Sociologist at Laban Centre, London. >Working title: Ordering movement: historical and contemporary perspectives >on the sociological significance of choreography in social and art dance. > >Richard Bleasdale >Show-control / currently responsible for the show-control in the Millennium >Dome; London > >Judith Palmer >Chair of the poetry society and reviewer of performance art; London >(unconfirmed.) > >Remko Scha >Professor in Computational Linguistics at The University of Amsterdam >Remko Scha will present a project, which he is worksing on in collaboration >with Arthur Elsenaar, who developed a technology that controls the muscles >of his face. > >Matt Locke >Matt Locke is Artistic Director of TEST Digital Research Facility and >lectures on Visual Culture and Technology at Huddersfield University. His >presentation 'Temporary Intimate Zones - public spaces and electric >communication' will look at the impact that the development of electric >communication in the nineteenth century had on Victorian society, and draw >some parallels with the development of networked mobile communications in >contemporary society, with a focus on the relationships between public >spectacle and private communication. > >Luke Jerram >Artist working on developing a medium which works with imprinting imagery >directly onto the retina; Bristol. Warning: strobe light will be used during >the talk for a short time > >Richard Povall >Richard Povall has been involved with experimental electronic media for >almost twenty years. He is a multidisciplinary composer, researcher, and >educator. Until the end of 1999 he was Director of the Division of >Contemporary Music and Associate Professor of Computer Music and New Media >at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (Ohio, US) > >map (Pete Gomes / Marvin Ayres) >map are creating audio visual work that combines moving image and sound. >Their installation 'sensory' address the ideas behind and methods of >incorporating artificial life sequences and computer generated images to >their work. This can currently be seen at Cap Gemini in Shaftesbury Avenue; >London (http://bak.spc.org/numinous/sensory) > >Blast Theory >Blast Theory is a group of four artists based in London who make live >events, installations and new media work. Their current project - Desert >Rain - is a game, an installation and a performance that uses a >Collaborative Virtual Environment to look at the Gulf War. It will come to >London at the Riverside Studios in May. > > >PRESENTATIONS > >Barry Edwards - Director Optik >Research Director Performance Arts - Brunel University, UK >Barry Edwards will discuss aspects of the techniques and structures >involved, which have connections to complexity and chaos theories, as well >as to wider issues such as actuality, immediacy, spontaneity. > > >Nick Rothwell -CASSIEL >www.cassiel.com - performer/improvisor of Systems Music for dance: live >electronic soundscapes with a pulse. Previously worked with Scottish Dance >Theatre and on composers/choreographers exchange, South Bank. >Demonstrations: Pulse Sequencer software (interactive symbolic sequencing >system written in MAX). Buchla Thunder (bird-of-prey shaped touch-sensitive >gestural MIDI controller) > >Sita Popat >PhD research student at Bretton Hall College, West Yorkshire. She is >studying interactivity in the dance-making process using the Internet, and >she will be presenting the practical side of her research: The Hands-On >Dance Project (http://goehr.leeds.ac.uk/sita/hands-on/) > >Andy Clark - 'Dance Project' (Micro-commission) >Andy Clark will present The Dance Project - an interactive multimedia piece >in which the user controls the choreography of an on-screen "virtual" dancer >in real time. It is intended as a serious choreographic tool, but is >intuitive enough to be used and enjoyed by a non-specialised audience on the >level of computer game. > >Volkmar Klien >PhD in Electronic Compositions; City University. Presenting the custom-made >software, which is currently conducting and shaping most of Barriedale >Operahouse's installations and performances. > > >INSTALLATIONS > >Nic Sandiland >choreographer/installation artist; London >Nic Sandiland is presenting the initial stages of, "RADAR". This is a small >ultrasonic radar set up to measure the public's location in the space. The >installation takes this information to construct a giant radar screen which >is mapped back onto the space through a video projection. RADAR will be >fully developed as an interactive choreographic installation for both >children and adults at the South Bank Centre in July. > >Stephan Silver >Stephan Silver will present a small version of his past work "Virtuoso" > >map (Pete Gomes / Marvin Ayres) >map are creating audio visual work that combines moving image and sound. >Their installation 'sensory' addresses the ideas behind and methods of >incorporating artificial life sequences and computer generated images to >their work. (http://bak.spc.org/numinous/sensory) > >Sophia Lycouris - PhD; artistic director kunstwerk-blend >An installation/live performance piece, which addresses limitations in the >use of the physical body and digital/internet-based technology as part of >live performance contexts. > >Graham Clayton - GRAVITY MAKES ME SAD - (Microcommission) >GRAVITY MAKES ME SAD comes from research into developments in sports science >to monitor athletes' response times to aggressive challenge. >The creation of this has been made possible by North West Art Board, IDEA >and DS99. > > >MICROCOMMISSIONS > >Blast Theory - Sidetrack >Sidetrack is a 30 second excerpt from a movie chosen at random. The choices >involved in that excerpt are governed by a search for the unexpected or the >peripheral, shots that seem to come from (or be headed to) elsewhere. It's >a search for the hidden beauty in the everyday, for the unspoken moods and >sensations lurking beneath the surface. > >Graham Clayton - Gravity makes me sad >(see under installations) > >Andy Clark - support for the ongoing 'Dance Project' >(see under presentations) > >CD-ROMS/Internet >Forsythe: Improvisation Technologies - produced by ZKM >Artintact5: Forced Entertainment - produced by ZKM >CD-ROM by Ruth Gibson > > >SHFITS'00 - Time Schedule > >SAT: >Main space: >2 00: doors open >2 15 - 2 30: opening/introduction >2 30 - 4 00: Presentations/Installation Introduction: > Volkmar Klien / Barry Edwards / Sita Popat / Nic Sandiland / > Susan Broadhurst / Stephan SIlver >4 00 - 4 40: Paul Filmer >4 40 - 4 59: buffer zone/break >4 59 - 5 00: Blast Theory's film (screening 1) >5 00 - 5 30: Richard Bleasdale >5 30 - 6 00: map (talk & introduction to their installation) >6 00 - 6 40: Richard Povall >6 59 - 7 00: Blast theory's film (screening 2) >7 00 - 10 00: buffer zone / continuations of informal presentations / party >/ installations (PDE,?) > >small space (installations): >3 00 - 5 30: Stephan Silver >6 00 - 10 00: map > >SUN: >2 00 - 2 15: Introduction >2 15 - 2 45: Blast Theory talk >2 45 - 315: Luke Jerram >3 15 - 4 30: Presentations/Installation Introductions: > Nick Rothwell / Sophia Lycouris / Graham Clayton / Andy Clark >4 30 - 5 10: Matt Locke >5 15 - 5 45: Judith Palmer (unconfirmed.) >5 45 - 5 59: buffer zone/break >5 59 - 6 00: Blast Theory's film (screening 3) >6 00 - 7 00: Remko Scha >7 00 - 8 00: Open > >small space (installations): >2 00 - 4 30: Graham Clayton >5 00 - 8 00: Sophia Lycouris > > >Best wishes, > >The SHIFTS team >Michael Klien; Joukje Kolff; Nicholas Mortimore > >PS: >Please feel free to bring film material of your work, which you want to >show. (There will be video-projectors and monitors 'scattered' throughout >the spaces) > >PPS: >We are having continuous problems with our server barriedaleoperahouse.com - >so please send all your corresponding mail to boh@metronet.co.uk >====================================== > Barriedale Operahouse >-------------------------------------- >coming up... >15/16 Jan 2000 'SHIFTS'00'- Chisenhale >28th Jan 2000 'The Gazing'- Place Theatre >18th Feb 2000 'Cay'- ICA London >--------------------------------------- >artistic direction / >       creative services / >                     choreographic r+d >-------------------------------------- > www.barriedaleoperahouse.com > > ********************************** Matt Locke Acting Chief Executive Kirklees Media Centre T:+44 (0)1484 431289 F:+44 (0)1484 513739 E:matt.digitalarts@architechs.com www.test.org.uk ICQ:11157918 ********************************** ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress