Syndicate: SHIFTS - THE PROGRAM

[Matt Locke <matt.digitalarts@architechs.com>]

>
>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
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>
>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
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>        Barriedale Operahouse
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>coming up...
>15/16 Jan 2000 'SHIFTS'00'- Chisenhale
>28th Jan  2000 'The Gazing'- Place Theatre
>18th Feb  2000 'Cay'- ICA London
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Matt Locke
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