We are delighted to present “IAB Webinar Series on Digital (Performance Practice and Emergency)” for MA Acting students!
Four Q&A sessions with four experts on digital performance talking about digital and online performance, following this calendar:
Monday – 6th April at 5pm (Spanish Time) – Dr. Vincenzo Del Gaudio (University of Salerno) – Lecturer of “Sociology and Multimedia” and “Sociology of Theatre”, Coordinator of the Laboratory of Performing Media, Secretary of the Study Centre for Media Communication and Society, Co-scientific coordinator of Digital Poiesis, Editor of the seminal volumes “Theatre and Digital Imageries – Essays on the Mediology of the Multimedia Performance” .
Tuesday – 7th April at 5pm (Spanish Time) – Dr. Christina Papagiannouli (University of South Wales) – Research Fellow in Performance and Interactive & Immersive Technology at the University of South Wales, where she also lectures performance and new media. She holds a practice-based PhD in theatre and digital performance and an MA in theatre directing from the University of East London, an Intergrated MA in theatre studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a diploma in drama from the University of Kent. Her practice focused on the political character of cyberformance. Her monograph “Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project” was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Wednesday – 8th April at 6.15 pm (Spanish Time) – Prof. Johannes Birringer (Brunel University) – Professor of Drama and Performance, he joined Brunel University London’s School of Arts in early 2006. He is director of the DAP-Lab and headed the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance from 2008 to 2015, curating the annual Research Seminar Series. He is a choreographer and media artist, and artistic director of AlienNation Co., a Houston-based multimedia ensemble that has collaborated on numerous site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects since 1993. After directing international workshops on dance and technology in England, Germany, and the U.S., he was appointed head of the new dance and technology program at The Ohio State University (1999-2003). In late 2005 he convened the Digital Cultures Lab, a cross-cultural dance and technology workshop-festival, and in 2003 he founded the Interaktionslabor Goettelborn in a former Coal Mine in the Saarland, Germany. A “Manifesto of Interactional Art” was published by Birringer in 2014 to reflect on ten years of laboratory experiments. His exhibition-performances and digital films have been staged in Europe, the U.S., Latin America, China and Japan. Birringer received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Trier University (Germany) after graduate research fellowships at Cambridge and Yale Universities. He has taught performance studies at Yale University, UT-Dallas, Rice University, Northwestern University, and at the Giessen Institute of Applied Theatre Science.
Thursday – 9th April at 5pm (Spanish Time) – Prof. Andy Lavender (University of Warwick) – Andy Lavender is Professor of Theatre & Performance and Head of Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Warwick. Andy was previously Head of the School of Arts at the University of Surrey (2011-2016). Before joining Surrey, Andy was Dean of Research at Central School and Speech and Drama, University of London (2007-11), where he worked with colleagues to develop research capacity and increase research funding. Prior to this he was Central’s Head of Postgraduate Studies (2002-7). Andy publishes on contemporary theatre and performance, in particular looking at intermedial and cross-disciplinary work, new production processes and changes to the nature of performance and spectatorship. His work is largely in the field of devised multimedia performance, working collaboratively with a range of designers, writers, performers and technicians with the theatre/performance company Lightwork.
