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MOTION BANK is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

Public educational activities and events reflecting the diverse issues related to score creation will be offered at The Frankfurt Lab, and will include performances and presentations of the guest choreographers as well as lectures. Workshops and residencies organized with senior scientists and scholars aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research based on questions coming from dance practice. Exchange of information with and support for related projects is facilitated through working groups and associate networks.

The pilot project for Motion Bank is the award winning Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced: a joint project of William Forsythe and The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance.

*The guest choreographers for 2010-2013 will be Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, and Bruno Beltrão.


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Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance
Research Seminar Series
Brunel Universiity

Coproduction with danceTech TV
ALL 2010 series

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Site venue: School of Arts, Brunel University, West London
Time:
4 pm (GMT) 11:oo am EST


Wednesday October 13th
Fiona Templeton, Brunel University
Speaking for Performance


Wednesday October 27th
Johannes Birringer, Brunel University
‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’



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Wednesday November 3rd
Misha Myers, University College Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’: Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

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Wednesday November 10th
Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

Wednesday November 24th
Guillerme Mendonça, Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th
Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey

Title: TBA


DESCRIPTIONS


Wednesday October 13th: Fiona Templeton, Brunel University

Speaking for Performance

I will introduce a method I use in the last few years to generate text
without writing, described in my article ‘Speaking for Performance’ in
Sensualities/Technologies, and used particularly in my work The Medead.
I’ll also talk about voice, not only physiologically and musically but
about the notion of voice in the sense of authorial position/ persona in
performance / inhabitation / ventriloquism. This relates to my current
work in progress, and also to another very brief article/note about the
work I directed last June by Leslie Scalapino. That article, entitled
'Acting Brackets' is about directing decisions about the non-lexical
aspects of the text to reflect Scalapino’s and my own interest in the
above notions.

Fiona Templeton is currently director of New York based The
Relationship, an international performance group, and was a founder of
The Theatre of Mistakes in the 70s. Her work ranges across theatre,
poetry and installation, and she has won awards and published 12 books
in several disciplines. Her You-The City (1988) was a pioneering work
in the genre of the site-specific performance journey. Recent
productions include the 6-part performance epic The Medead, and L’Ile, a
recreation of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamt
of.

Wednesday October 27th Johannes Birringer, Brunel University

‘Dispositif: Performance Repositions’

In this speculative lecture, Birringer seeks to develop methodological
frameworks for grappling with the daunting challenges that underlie a
sociological or pragmatist/materialist analysis of contemporary
"interfacial installations." After introducing the notion of the
"performative dispositif" (extending studies of cinematic and
scenographic arrangements), questions will address the material
processes in installations and what it might mean to advance knowledge
or explore sensory perception. How do performer-participants assess or
value attributes or affordances of "technical beings," of programmed
responsive environments or hybrid media spaces which behave with and
towards the visitor-participant – as if becoming living, moving, animate
matter, changing their vitality and displaying a range of symptoms in
their materiality (motion, agency, autonomy, protocol behavior, and
ritual aspect, etc.). With this research, Birringer proposes to place
more attention on how a particular dispositif enables the interface
relations technically while observing how human performers respond to
responsive environments or experience its sensate articulations.


Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist. As artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co.(www.aliennationcompany.com),
he has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations and
digital projects in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas,
China, Japan and Australia. His digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito
premiered in Brasil at the FIT Theatre Festival in 2008; the
interactive dancework Suna no Onna was featured at Laban Centre and
Watermans, London. The mixed reality installation UKIYO toured Eastern
Europe in June 2010. He is founder of Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in
Germany (http://interaktionslabor.de)
and director of DAP-Lab at Brunel University, West London, where he is a
Professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts. His new
book, Performance, Technology and Science, was released by PAJ
Publications in 2009.

Wednesday November 3 Misha Myers, University of Falmouth
Is that a pistol in your pocket...?’:
Corral Consciousness and the Performance of Enclosure and Concealment

This presentation stages a performative ‘fictocritical’ dialogue with
Jimmie Durham on the strategies employed in his work to intervene in the
rituals of concealment and erasure which founded and continue founding
the unique brand of empire made in the political and ideological
narratives of the US.
This dialogue engages with Durham’s performance/installation works,
writings on cowboys, and his curation of the American West (2005) at
Compton Verney, UK, and his work Building a Nation (2006) at Matt’s
Gallery, London, through the persona, performance texts, lyrics, stage
directions and images of my own performance practice, including Yodel
Rodeo and Lonesome Long Gone and the installation/outpost Buffalo Sue’s
Wild West (2004), which were commissioned and performed as part of
Spacex Gallery and Relational’s Homeland exhibition in Exeter, UK. As a
method of researching Durham’s strategies of interruption, I staged a
re-enactment of a moment of Building a Nation for a Performance
Re-enactment Society (PRS) photo shoot. It is a kind of research that I
do through the doing of a thing. This involved a process of finding out
what something was, is or what it can become through a dynamic and
discursive relationship with ‘second hand’ memories, photographs, and
other relics of a performance archive.

Originally, from Mississippi, Dr. Misha Myers is a live artist and
Senior Lecturer in Theatre at University College Falmouth-incorporating
Dartington College of Arts. She creates socially engaged, dialogic and
participatory events that invite participants to reflect on and
articulate their experience of particular places and landscapes through
various spatial practices and performance mechanisms involving walking,
singing, moving and writing. Documentation and digital artworks from her
walk works way from home and Take me to a place, co-created with
refugees and asylum seekers and refugee support organisations in cities
across the UK, are online at www.homingplace.org.
Her recent work has been shown at Spacex Gallery’s public art
exhibition ‘Homelands’, in the Millais Gallery’s ‘Art in the Age of
Terrorism’ exhibition, and as part of Art Surgery and Newlyn Art
Gallery’s ‘Tract’, a programme of site-specific and live art. She has
published articles on her work and that of others in various journals,
including Visual Studies, Performance Research Journal, Leonardo
Electronic Almanac, Performance Paradigm, The International Journal of
Arts and Society, Research in Drama Education and in the book Art in the
Age of Terrorism.

Wednesday November 10th Mike Pearson, University of Plymouth
'Fighting in Built-Up Areas': staging The Persians with the British Army

This seminar will reflect upon matters of archaeology, landscape and
site-specificity theory and practice in relation to the production of
Aeschylus's The Persians that Mike Pearson directed in August for the
newly-founded National Theatre Wales.

Mike Pearson studied archaeology in University College, Cardiff
(1968–71). He was a member of R.A.T. Theatre (1972–3) and an artistic
director of Cardiff Laboratory Theatre (1973–80) and Brith Gof
(1981–97). He continues to make performance as a solo artist and in
collaboration with artist/designer Mike Brookes as Pearson/Brookes
(1997–present). In August 2010 he directed a site-specific production of
Aeschylus’s The Persians for National Theatre Wales on the military
training ranges in mid-Wales. He is co-author with Michael Shanks of
Theatre/Archaeology (2001) and author of In Comes I: Performance, Memory
and Landscape (2006) and Site-Specific Performance (2010). The
monograph: All that remains: an imperfect archaeology of the Mickery
Theatre, Amsterdam is forthcoming in 2010. He is currently Professor of
Performance Studies, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies,
Aberystwyth University.

Wednesday November 24th Guillerme Mendonça, Research Student Brunel University
Title: TBA

Wednesday December 8th Rachel Fensham, University of Surrey
Title: TBA

For more information please contact
Gretchen.schiller@brunel.ac.uk


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Harvestworks slashes class prices in half! See below a new weekend Interactive Art Intensive Course we added to our list of upcoming classes, in November. If you're interested in interactivity, this is the course you want to take - and now it costs just half of what a full-weekend course has cost before.

A few open spots remain in our full-week Max/MSP/Jitter Intensive Course, starting in a little more than two weeks. Now we're offering a $100 discount for students enrolled in any college if they sign up! Just look for "Special Student Pricing" when you choose your payment option. Well, don't forget to bring your student ID to the class...
For more information about classes and events, check out our main website at http://harvestworks.org. You can sign up for our classes thrpough our PayPal store, you'll find all classes listed on our front page. If you have questions call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130 ext 2. Membership is $75/yr, and you can pay for the membership when you sign up for the class.
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Exciting one-off chance brought to your door step:

Industry workshop INTERACTIVE SCENO LAB 19-21 Oct 2010, Liverpool.

The workshop is aimed at filmmakers, video art and interactive art enthusiasts, musicians, scenographers and creative engineers who are up
for experimenting some days and unleashing creativity...

More details at www.movementonscreen.org.uk.
Contact moves@movementonscreen.org.uk and register now. There are only few places left.

Catch a glimpse of the workshop and watch our online video here: http://www.movementonscreen.org.uk/video.asp?id=80849


All the best,
The moves team.

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Professor Dava Newman, MIT: Inventor, Science and Engineering
Guillermo Trotti, A.I.A., Trotti and Associates, Inc. (Cambridge, MA): Design
Dainese (Vincenca, Italy): Fabrication
Douglas Sonders: Photography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dava Newman,
"Second Skin Bio-suit"


Monday, October 18
7:00 PM

MIT Bartos Theater
Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public
617-253-5229
act@mit.edu

http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html

Second Skin Bio-suit

With support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts and Trotti & Assoc. Inc., Cambridge, Mass., the BioSuit was developed to provide a 'second skin' capability for astronaut performance. Processes such as electrospinning and melt-blowing have been used to develop fibers for the suit. A current mockup uses nylon, spandex and urethane layers with varied properties and electronics incorporated into the suit and helmet materials that can have "smart textile" functions relating to physiology (thermal comfort), communications and spatial orientation. Space suit research can lead to improvements in the quality of life here on earth, too, through advances in orthotics that can help children with cerebral palsy and 'smart orthoses' for stroke patients.

Dava J. Newman is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems at MIT She assisted NASA in developing the Bio-Suit.

Location:
MIT Bartos Theater, Wiesner Building (E15)
20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Free and open to the public.

For more information:
http://visualarts.mit.edu/about/lecture.html
act@mit.edu
617-253-5229

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The Give Me Shelter lecture series draws together speakers from different disciplines to discuss questions such as: How can bodywear function as body extension or to support the human body under unusual conditions such as hot and cold climates? How can we expand the notion of the boundary between the body and environment? What kind of second skin would be required to survive walking through a volcano, living under water, or visiting outer space? How does clothing contribute to the question of the protection of endangered peoples and environments? The ACT Monday night lecture series is organized this term as part of the ACT course of Professor Ute Meta Bauer, Second Skin / Body Wear. Artistic Research and Transdisciplinary Studies, in collaboration with the Performance Workshop of Professor Joan Jonas and Introduction to Networked Cultures of lecturer Nitin Sawhney.

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9/13/10 - Climate Changes in Science Fashion
Elke Gaugele
Gaugele will reflect upon climate changes in "science fashion" and discuss different points of departure for its contemporary artistic research. Elke Gaugele is a cultural anthropologist and professor of Fashions and Styles at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.

09/20/10 - Com(ment)ic: Wondersuits, Fast Skin, Poison Ivy
Regina Maria Moeller
Comic superheroes dress in hightech suits that support their hyperactivities with magic powers. Are these "wondersuits" fictional? Or have they become models for current "second skin" developments? Regina Maria Möller is a German artist, author, founder of the magazine regina. She is a professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art / Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science andTechnology.

09//27/10 - 21st Century Living in the Amazon: In the Order of Chaos
Laura Anderson Barbata
Laura Anderson Barbata worked with the Yanomami people of the Venezuelan Amazon Rainforest, teaching them to make paper and books so they could write their own history. Barbata is a professor at the Escuela Nacional de Escultura, Pintura y Grabado La Esmeralda of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, México.

10/04/10 - Tierra Brillante
Omar Foglio and Jose Luis Figueroa
Tierra Brilliante ("the brightest glaze") spotlights lead poisoning suffered by practitioners of traditional ceramics in Mexico. Jose Luis Figueroa co-directed Tierra Brillante, and Omar Folgio was in charge of production for the same film. Tierra Brillante is a co-production between Galatea and the Mexican Institute of Cinema (IMCINE).

10/18/10 - Second Skin Bio-suit
Dava Newman
See details above.

10/25/10 - SOFT, SMART & STEALTHY: New Paradigms for Design Practice
Sheila Kennedy
Sheila Kennedy will present recent research and work. Sheila Kennedy is a Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture Ltd. (KVA), an interdisciplinary design practice that explores the relationships between architecture, digital technology and emerging public needs. She is a Professor of the Practice, Architectural Design at MIT.

11/01/10 - Build your own world
Steve Dietz
Steve Dietz is the Artistic Director of ZER01 which produces the 01SJ Biennial, dedicated to inspiring creativity at the intersection of art, technology and digital culture. Dietz is a serial platform creator.

11/08/10 - Metabolic Studio
Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon will talk about current projects with her Metabolic Studio, including Silver and Water, a film made out of the silver and water historically mined out of the Owens River Valley. Lauren Bon is an artist and MIT alumna. Her Metabolic Studio is based in Los Angeles.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
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The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology operates as a critical studies and production based laboratory, connecting the arts with an advanced technological community. ACT faculty, fellows and students engage in advanced visual studies and research by implementing both an experimental and systematic approach to creative production and transdisciplinary collaboration. As an academic and research unit, the ACT Program emphasizes both knowledge production and knowledge dissemination. In the tradition of artist and educator Gyorgy Kepes, the founder of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies and an advocate of "art on a civic scale," ACT envisions artistic leadership initiating change, providing a critically transformative view of the world with the civic responsibility to enrich cultural discourse.
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from november 29 to december 4, 2010. L'animal a l'esquena (Celrà. Girona)

Public call for entries

The call for entries to participate at the next LAB that NU2's organizes at L'Animal a l'esquena is now open. If you are preparing a scenic project with an important images presence; if you are thinking in a installation; if you want to create a dance film work or a documentary film... we offer the possibility of share ideas, know the big diversity of recording ways that the market offers actually and to adapt idea and forms to the reason and the way the work will be presented.

A group of artists with a lot of experience's diversity will be with us and we will have in our disposition cameras, projection equipment, technicians, space and time to develop your project.

The places are very limited. We will need to receive a short dossier with your bio and the project which you are working/thinking at the email info@nu2s.org . The lab is free but you have to do an inscription of 90 euros to cover the lunch meals expenses. For the people not living at Girona we have planned accommodation at rural houses.
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Deadline to send material: December 15th, 2010.

All material should be sent to: mangapc@hotmail.com

Results will be publish: December 30th, 2010.


La Granja Art Center promotes the creation, research, experimentation, and exhibition of innovative

art work, and also the development of new social dynamics between artists and community. La

Granja conducts and implements two initiatives to accomplish its goals. One is the Artist in Residence

Program, and the second, Proyecto Chamaco (Children Project).


The Artist in Residence Program (ARP) offers a unique opportunity to step outside of the daily routine

and work in a stimulating and inspiring environment, providing the necessary isolation to concentrate

and focus in a creative process. An important component of the Program is to foster exchanges with

the community, arts organizations, promoters, and national and international artists. With the purpose

of connecting La Granja´s activities with the local community, artists will prepare one working session

with the children of Proyecto Chamaco.


The Selection Committee of La Granja will select a group of emerging and established artists from

different nationalities to develop or finish an artistic project. Upon completion of their residencies, one

of the ARP partner organization presenters will give artists the opportunity to show their results (as

finished pieces or as works in progress). The Selection Committee will evaluate the characteristics

of each project to decide its presentation space and will solve any issue not foreseen in this Call for

Proposals.


La Granja is open to all disciplines - visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, music, audio,

video, digital media. Priority will be given to projects focused on the creation of site-specific

pieces for La Granja including its photographic and video documentation (video dance, video

art), as well as interdisciplinary investigations.


Residency duration:

Mínimum 15 and maximum 30 days, between February 1st and May 1st, 2011.


For detailed information please visit:

www.lamangavideoydanza.com

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Deadline to send material: December 15th, 2010.

All material should be sent to: mangapc@hotmail.com

Results will be publish: December 30th, 2010.


La Granja Art Center promotes the creation, research, experimentation, and exhibition of innovative

art work, and also the development of new social dynamics between artists and community. La

Granja conducts and implements two initiatives to accomplish its goals. One is the Artist in Residence

Program, and the second, Proyecto Chamaco (Children Project).


The Artist in Residence Program (ARP) offers a unique opportunity to step outside of the daily routine

and work in a stimulating and inspiring environment, providing the necessary isolation to concentrate

and focus in a creative process. An important component of the Program is to foster exchanges with

the community, arts organizations, promoters, and national and international artists. With the purpose

of connecting La Granja´s activities with the local community, artists will prepare one working session

with the children of Proyecto Chamaco.


The Selection Committee of La Granja will select a group of emerging and established artists from

different nationalities to develop or finish an artistic project. Upon completion of their residencies, one

of the ARP partner organization presenters will give artists the opportunity to show their results (as

finished pieces or as works in progress). The Selection Committee will evaluate the characteristics

of each project to decide its presentation space and will solve any issue not foreseen in this Call for

Proposals.


La Granja is open to all disciplines - visual, literary, performance, interdisciplinary, music, audio,

video, digital media. Priority will be given to projects focused on the creation of site-specific

pieces for La Granja including its photographic and video documentation (video dance, video

art), as well as interdisciplinary investigations.


Residency duration:

Mínimum 15 and maximum 30 days, between February 1st and May 1st, 2011.


For detailed information please visit:

www.lamangavideoydanza.com

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Boston Chapter of "Indie Connect"

Hi Everyone!

Six months ago I struck up a conversation on "Linkedin" with the founder of "Indie Connect," a national music org that is "a worldwide community of independent musicians, singers, bands, songwriters, record labels, music professionals and service providers who share ideas, expertise, contacts, and resources."

This means access to booking/gigs, music distribution, education, film & TV, licensing, marketing, recording, song writing, technology, website development, and social networking.

I am "onboard" to introduce this organization to Massachusetts, and would like to host a meeting in Boston/Cambridge the first week or two of October. Then on the North Shore, South Shore, and wherever the interest lies.

PLEASE email me back and indicate if a Monday or Tuesday evening works for your schedule. The first opportunity would be October or 12th.

I have a couple of sites in mind (that don't cost money at all), but if you know of a cool space to have a meeting for up to 50 people, please let me know this, too.

I am very excited to meet all of you and discuss what the needs of the Massachusetts music community are.

Yours in music, song, and dance -

Lisa Leake

Here are a couple of links:


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The Kitchen presents Ralph Lemon’s Meditation: A One-Day Film Event
Sunday, October 17
The concluding event of Lemon’s How Can You Stay in the House All Day,
Premiering in Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Next Wave Festival
New York, NY, September 29, 2010—On Sunday, October 17, The Kitchen presents Meditation, a film
installation conceived and created by Jim Findlay and Ralph Lemon. The one-day event is the closing
chapter of Lemon’s live multi-media project, How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go
Anywhere, which has its New York premiere in this year’s Brooklyn Academy of Music’s (BAM) Next
Wave Festival. The installation will be on view from 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. at The Kitchen (512 West
19th Street). Admission is free.
The first three portions of How Can You Stay—which includes live performance, dance and visual art— are
presented on the proscenium stag of BAM’s Harvey Theater, while Meditation is a film installation where
audience members can come and go as they please. Only being seen at The Kitchen, the installation
reiterates the themes from How Can You Stay… through projection, light and shadow, creating an
immersive environment. The film invites viewers to absorb the rhythms of an imagined underlying
narrative or simply follow their own free form associations. Throughout the entirety of How Can You
Stay…, Lemon employs these multiple and intertwined media to approach themes of human connection,
loss, and the elusive but ever-compelling possibility of grace.
How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere is co-produced by Cross Performance Inc.
and MAPP International Productions. It was co-commissioned by BAM for the 2010 Next Wave Festival,
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, On The Boards
and Walker Art Center.
Ralph Lemon (Concept and Direction) is Artistic Director of Cross Performance, a company dedicated to
the creation of cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary performance and presentation. Lemon builds teams of
collaborating artists - from diverse cultural backgrounds, countries and artistic disciplines - who bring their
own history and aesthetic voices to the work. Projects develop over a period of years, with public sharings
of work-in-progress, culminating in artworks derived from the artistic, cultural, historic and emotional
material uncovered in this rigorous creative research process.
In 2005, Lemon concluded The Geography Trilogy, a decade-long international research and performance
project exploring the "conceptual materials" of race, history, memory and the creative practice. The project
featured three dance/theater performances: Geography (1997); Tree (2000); and Come home Charley
Patton (2004); two Internet art projects; several gallery exhibitions; the publication of two books by
Wesleyan University Press, and a third to be published in 2011. Other recent projects include the three-
DVD set of The Geography Trilogy; a web-installation (www.ralphlemon.net); a 2009 multimedia
performance commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Rescuing the Princess; and Lemon’s current
multimedia project How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?
Lemon was one of fifty artists to receive the inaugural United States Artists Fellowship in 2006. He has
received two "Bessie" (NY Dance and Performance) Awards, a 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts
Prize for Choreography, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2004 Fellowship with the Bellagio Study and
Conference Center. In 1999, Lemon was honored with the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts. Lemon has
been artist-in-residence at Temple University in Philadelphia (2005-06); George A. Miller Endowment
Visiting Artist at the Krannert Center (2004); and a Fellow of the Humanities Council and Program in
Theater and Dance at Princeton University (2002). From 1996-2000, he was Associate Artist at Yale
Repertory Theatre. Most recently he was an IDA fellow at Stanford University.
Lemon’s solo visual art exhibitions include: How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go
Anywhere?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2010); (the efflorescence of) Walter,
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (2008), The Kitchen, New York (2007) and the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis (2006); The Geography Trilogy, Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
(2001); Temples, Margaret Bodell Gallery, New York (2000); and Geography, Art Awareness, Lexington,
New York (1997). Group exhibitions include: Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
(2010-11) and The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum at Duke University, Durham,
NC. In January 2011, Lemon will perform at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in conjunction
with the exhibition, On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century.
Jim Findlay (Video Designer) is a designer, director, performer and creator with a constellation of theater,
performance and music groups. He was a founding member and primary collaborator in both the
groundbreaking performance group Collapsable Giraffe, and the internationally successful music/media
performance company Accinoso/Cynthia Hopkins, as well as being an associate artist of the Wooster
Group since 1994 and a frequent collaborator with Ridge Theater, Bang on a Can and Ralph Lemon.
Other recent work includes video design for R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the
Universe at Arena Stage; Rescuing the Princess by Ralph Lemon (Lyon Opera Ballet); and projection
design for DJ Spooky’s Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica. Current projects include Persephone by Ridge
Theater; Stew's Brooklyn Omnibus at BAM; and a commission for the creation of a non-text based work
with director Phil Soltanoff for the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles.
Findlay is also developing, writing and directing a new performance project titled Botanica , to premiere in
2011. Awards include the Henry Hewes Design Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Princess Grace Award, Obie
Awards in 2001 and 2008, and Bessie Awards in 1999 and 2008.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center
and Dance Films Association, Inc.
will present the 39th internationally touring



Dance on Camera Festival
and Symposium "Dance and..."
January 28-February 1, 2011

Deadline for submissions: October 18, 2010
See entry form http://dancefilms.org/DanceOnCamerentry.php

Sponsored by DFA since 1971, co-sponsored by The Film Society of Lincoln Center since 1996, Movement Research since 2008, TenduTv since 2010, Dance On Camera Festival celebrates the immediacy, energy, and mystery of dance as combined with the intimacy of film. Susan Braun began this festival in 1971 to connect dance film producers with users and distributors, to spur dancers to collaborate with filmmakers. DFA's Festival has been a revenue source for the dance filmmakers through their touring program since 2000.

To complete your entry form, you pay $0 if you are a DFA member in good standing or $30 per title if you are not a DFA member.

Please send your entry fee and dvd (Pal or NTSC format) to:
Dance Films Association, 48 West 21st Street, #907, NY, NY 10010 USA

If you are paying by Paypal.com, please direct your fee to DFA's account:
dancefilms@msn.com. Please add a $3 service fee to your payment.

Advertise in the Festival Program! Details on sizes available soon.
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Festival Tec-Art-Eco 01





Festival Tec-Art-Eco 01

GERMINATION

COMO / GALLARATE / LUGANO – 30 sept / 8 oct 2010 -

Art, technological innovation, communica­tion and environmental sustainability are the focus of Tec-Art-Eco art and technology for the environment, promoted by Ariella Vidach – AiEP Association (MILAN) and Avventure in Eli­cottero Prodotti (LUGANO) with the support of the P.O. di Cooperazione Transfrontaliera Italia – Svizzera / FESR – Fondo Europeo di Sviluppo Regionale.

A cultural project that travels within the Insubrica region (Lugano-Como-Gallarate) focused on the role of new technologies as a means for creating a pioneering model of cultu­ral eco-sustainable event that stands the test of time.

A three-year programme (2009-2011) of interdisciplinary festivals, productive labs, workshops and discussions with interna­tional guests. After the 2009 event in Lugano
and Gallarate, Como is hosting the first 2010 festival with the
participation of Alva Noto – Car­sten Nicolai, Eduardo Kac, Leo Hickman,
Daito Manabe and many artists and thinkers on the international scene


see more about Festival here

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WORLD GRID LAB is an open studio/workshop/installation conceived specially to transform a festival hub, gallery space or the theater lobby in an interactive lab for experiments on the use of Web 2.0 technology such as: social networking, video podcasting and live video broadcasting for on-line content production and distribution. It deploys a flexible connected space adaptable for the needs of festivals venues facilitating direct participation of members of the local community as content producers. It makes the production and distribution of art news and media a participatory and collaborative exchange between the the festival, the artists and the community creating of an open forum for local and global interaction.

It is conceived as an intervention of the festival or event site creating a "spectacle of information and knowledge" and its production with a collaborative approach.

http://www.dance-tech.net/page/worldgridlab-2



Pipeline Production:

Select artist/event
Research, Research, Research
Reasonable scope
Plan and Improvise

Shotting:
REMEMBER TO CHARGE THE CAMERAS
always take the place, your way to it...
Close ups
Sound
light
Stability
Camera movement
who are you?
Where are we?
What are you doing here?
process, process, process?
Premiere?
Connection os the piece with line of work
allow the person to finish the sentences
No more than 10 minutes

About the performances activities:
clips no longer than 30 seconds
Change angles if possible.

SAVE THE CLIPS TO THE COMPUTER
BE SURE THA THE CLIPS ARE SAVED BEFORE DELETING CONTENT THE CAMERA


Editing:
We will use FLIPSHARE

LEAD/end from festival and dance-tech@

1.Wach all your clips
2.-Trim all your clips (save with new names in sequence in a new folder)
3.-when ready make MOVIE
4.-Review MOVIE
5.-Write in a notepad doc the name and the description the copy and past for all the videos that you are uoloading. Use the following format:

title:
dance-tech@ (name of the festival): Interview with name of the artist.
Produced by Marlon Barrios Solano/dance-tech.net for (name of the festival)
(URL of the festival)


WGL Production Team:
(your names)
WorldGridLab project
http://www.dance-tech.net/page/worldgridlab-2
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

TAGS: interview (last name of artist) (genre) (locations) dance-tech festival

6.-Upload to:
-dance-techTV BLIPTV (make it available for Itunes)
-Download. flv
-Upload .flv in: dance-tech and festival accounts in YouTube.
-Embed the dance-techTv from Youtube in your regular dance-tech video commons.
Assign them to the playlist of the featival and of the dance-tech@ interviews
-Share the video page in your account of Facebook and Tweeter
-upload the .flv to dance-techTV in LIVESTREAM

-Be sure that you have done all these steps for all the videos.

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dance-tech@ Body/ Mind Festival: Interview with (name or artist/group)
Produced by Marlon Barrios Solano/dance-tech.net for Body/ Mind Festival 2010
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WGL Production Team:
Alicja Suchcicka
Matylda Żemajtis
Łukasz Sokołowski
Ewa Pieczyńska
Natalia Wilk
Judyta Warzecha

WorldGridLab project
http://www.dance-tech.net/page/worldgridlab-2
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

TAGS: interview linehan dance warsaw dance-tech festival body mind
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Lectures, consulting and labs

on-line producer/curator/researcher/workshop leader

dance and new media/networked media production/collaborative technologies

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I offer consulting, lectures and facilitation of workshop as participatory platforms for knowledge sharing and change with an embodied improvisational approach.
 

I like to share my experience on:

  • On-online/off-line collaborative technologies/methods
  • Social media and hyper-media for artists and cultural managers
  • Movement arts and new media (dance and technology).
  • Networked/collaborative creativity and interactive tools for knowledge production, generation  and distribution
  • Open Space technologies and interactive learning for collaboration and innovation
  • Performance, communication and sustainability
  • Post-pc technologies for collaboration and creation
  • Collaborative spaces and networks for/in the performing arts

I facilitate the materialization of social dynamics that augment dialogue and increase the possibilities of  collaboration for social innovation.

 

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Labs and workshops*:

With a hybrid background on dance, cognitive science, new media and organizational development, I combine improvisational arts, collaborative methodologies, on-line  collaborative technologies, eco-systemic approaches and mindfulness training to facilitate the necessary environment and collaborative architectures to augment participation, engagement and innovation.

I focus on embodiment, collaborative creativity and the potential of the new internet for the development of alternative and self-organizing  strategies for knowledge production  and learning.

I use interactive learning strategies, games and open space technologies as relational interventions questioning traditional approach for knowledge sharing between bodies, countries, disciplines and organizations.

I have lectured and facilitated workshops in more than 20 countries within professional events (conferences, symposiums, festivals) and educational institutions.

* All workshops are adaptable in their formats and may be modified based on needs and local conditions. 

Open Space Technology is the main format  for all workshops.

Mobile lab equipment is provided.

 

meta_creation lab

Inter-actors, attractors and the aesthetics of complexity

An embodied collaborative workshop interfacing movement art practices, digital arts, computational networks and social systems oriented to movement and interdisciplinary artists (music, new media, theater, etc)


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This workshop is a collaborative lab to creatively explore the contemporary performing approaches of real-time composition considering them practices of an aesthetics of self organization and of complex systems.

An embodied/distributed cognition approach is used to generate physical activities and games (scores), guided discussions/conversations about relevant artists works and concepts exploring the aesthetic of embodied complex systems  their emergent properties for spaces activated by human and computational actions.

meta-creation are  real-time composition games/scores, that explore the dynamic couplings of mind, body and information/data flows as a hybrid meta-design that allows for emergent and self-organized "dramaturgies"  and/or performance experience.

This workshop is an open space for experimentation and inquiry about  bottom-up architectures as compositional prototyping strategies and processes.

The participants explore interactivity plus generativity:  use of rule systems, computational and hybrid (human/machine) algorithms as "scores" conceiving the performance space as a cognitive system.

More about meta_creation lab

mobile_lab is provided

 

meta_media lab
social media production and internet presence in art festivals and events
Open Studio/Installation/Workshop

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meta_media lab sustainable collaborative format to produce and distribute networked digital content in the arts. It is geared to collaborate with artistic venues and festivals on leveraging the viral power of social media platforms and the new Internet (Web 2.0) augmenting presence, developing audiences and facilitating the generation and distribution of knowledge. These strategies benefit from an engaged international community of more than 5000 members including individual artists and organizations.


mobile_lab is provided

More about meta_media lab

 

MOTION in the Cloud

social media dynamics for art administrators and stubborn artists

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The new internet is social, locative, multimedia rich and open.  It offers many possibilities to  artists and art managers (organizations) to augment their presence, produce and distribute knowledge and develop collaborative artistic experiments. The participants are introduced to the basic principles of the new internet and its fundamental technological characteristics and platforms. Strategies are developed and  prototyped.


mobile_lab is provided


DIY=DIWO

Do It Your Self with Others

Embodied /Distributed Creativity Lab

Open Space  for creative collaboration

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A collaborative space is facilitated with open format methodologies combining  improvisational embodied activities, games and exchange.

This approach is the frame for any kind of collaborative gathering and creative laboratory in the cultural industries or organizations.

 

CLIENTS AND COLLABORATORS


Interested?


 marlon@dance-tech.net


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dance-tech@ Interviews

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Go to interviews aggregated in dance-tech.net


Subscribe to RSS form dance-tech@

dance-tech@ is a series of video interviews with a very dynamic documentary format focused on interdisciplinary explorations on the performance of motion and innovation.

With more than 200 video podcasts, they are considered the "knowledge backbone" of the network and have been produced by Marlon Barrios Solano and collaborators since October 2007 covering events and artistic works in more than 15 countries.

In February 2011 is formally established an international network of correspondents as an experiment on the use of  the new internet for a distributed collaborative sustainable system of media production.


The interviews are produced with internet native approaches and portable technologies becoming a model of sustainable collaborative journalism.

 

Partners can directly support the dance-tech@ Interviews


The dance-tech@ interviews are published in several on-line platforms such as:

BlipTV: to make it available for media portable media players
ITunes
dance-techTV in You Tube: for the masses and search bots.
dance-techTV: as a part of the regular programs and play-list available on dance-techTV

Do a random search in the dance-tech@ interviews

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http://www.danceinsider.com/

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Flash News, 9-18: Bon Voyage, Jilly
DANCE AND LITERARY GIANT JILL JOHNSTON DIES
By The Dance Insider
Copyright 2010 The Dance Insider & Paul Ben-Itzak

HARTFORD, CT -- Jill Johnston, a giant in American Letters who ushered in a new age in dance before going on to help usher in a new age in journalism, and a columnist and chroniclist for the Dance Insider since 2005, died Saturday at Hartford Hospital at the age of 81, her spouse and companion of 30 years, Ingrid Nyeboe, announced, after suffering a stroke September 9, nine days after undergoing minimally invasive open heart surgery to treat atrial fibrillation.

"As Jill was a pioneer not just in dance criticism but in 20th century journalism and literature, dance analogies might be too limiting," said Dance Insider publisher Paul Ben-Itzak. "That said, as a dance critic she was our Merce Cunningham. Just as dance lost the last of its pioneering giants when Cunningham passed away last year, dance criticism has now lost the last of its giants."


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http://www.jilljohnston.com/

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