WORKHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
The School of the Arts at Chichester presents Machines and Migratory bodies, a ten day residential performance and New Technology workshop at Chichester Institute of Higher Education, England.
8-18TH JULY 1998
Produced by Chris Butler, Head of the School of the Arts at Chichester Directed by Johannes Birringer (AlienNation Co., Houston) in cooperation with guest artists from Europe.
DESCRIPTION OF WORKSHOP
First created and conducted in 1996 during the Split Screen Digital Arts Festival in Chichester, England, this multimedia performance and technology lab is designed to explore the multimedia communications and expressions of the future. It is offered as a 10-day intensive workshop open to participants from all visual and performing arts areas, and its particular focus is directed at:
- Technological performance process (sampling, editing, processing, reprocessing, multi media integration)
- Interactivity(design, live/virtual interfaces, MIDI activity, on-line event structure, conversions, transmissions.
- Installation and display techniques of performance/digital mediaworks.
It focuses on experimentation that seeks to explore new spatial-temporal relations and translations of visual, sensory experience. The workshop is production-oriented and designed to culminate in a public rehearsal-performance, screening or installation/exhibition of the materials that have been developed by the participants, on the 17/18 July. There are excellent, state-of-the-art rehearsal and studio facilities with technical/electronic equipments that are available to the group.
This performance/multimedia workshop offers a laboratory for the organic integration of performance and digital arts, and for the development of new interdisciplinary methods of composition.
This workshop is conceptually based on migrations of the body and the relations of the organic and the digitally generated. Sites, parasities, machine bodies and liguid geographies of physical bodies and virtual realities.
The day and evening rehearsals will explore the relationships between performance/writing and photography/film, image-time and movement-time, music and movement, the grain of the voice and the grain of the body's image, analog and digital processes, samplings and conversions, as well as between movements of the body and the ethnoscapes of Post Modernity.
Superior campus accomodation £250 to include food. Course fee £200.
This unique opportunity is for participants who have indepth knowledge of the area and would like to develop their skills with experts from the field within this residential framework. There are only 13 places available.
Prospective applicants are invited to submit a resume and portfolio (work samples and documentation of previous work recommended).
Send to:
orpheus@rice.edu
Registration deadline: June 1stOther information:
Chris Butler
hosa@chihe.ac.uk
Chichester Institute of Higher Education
Bishop Otter College College Lane
Chichester
England+44 O1243 816170
Visit the workshop website: Migbot