courses /spring 07 /danm 213 B /schedule

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting it inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
– Marcel Duchamp

Meeting 1: April 9

Suggested Event: April 13 & 14

Guest Speaker

UCSC Arts&Lectures hosts Ben Munisteri Dance Projects at the UCSC Mainstage Theater, featuring the World Premiere of "Terra Nova."

Terra Nova is an experimental melding of choreography, computer animation, and motion-capture technology that together terraform the stage, building up a landscape of moving ideas and images.

Terra Nova was conceived by creative director Ted Warburton and choreographed by Ben Munisteri, with computer animation by Peter Birdsall, lighting design by David Cutbert, and set design by Kate Edmunds.

Terra Nova is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Science Foundation, and UCSC's Arts Research Institute. Univerity sponsors include UCSC's Theater Arts Department and Digital Arts and New Media program, New York University's Computer Science Department and Indiana University.

Meeting 2: April 16

Guest Speaker

Christina McPhee, writer/artist and the moderator of the empyre discussion list. Her project la conchita mon amour was recently exhibited in New York at the Sara Tecchia Gallery

Here are links that Ms. McPhee referred to in her presenation:

http://www.christinamcphee.net

http://www.naxsmash.net

http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=435

http://strikeslip.tv

Empire Listserv: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/

http://www.documenta12.de/

http://www.neural.it/english/

http://post.thing.net/forum

Field Trip: Sunday, April 22

Class field trip to UCB for performance of "The Reception," a cross-disciplinary performance piece utilizing tele-immersion technology, followed by a post-performance discussion, "Being Here: Presence/Remote Presence within Live and Media Based Performance," by N. Katherine Hayles, award- winning author of "How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics."

The performance is at 2pm at the Zellerbach Playhouse, 2430 Bancroft Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720. (Directions)

For the UCB field trip, individuals who would like to carpool or need a ride should plan to meet at Porter College, 4/22, at 11am. Ted will be polling your group early in the quarter to establish who can drive and whether we need to rent a van or two. For this trip each of you need to fill out liability waivers. Ted will distribute them in class. Please sign and return immediately to him.

Meeting 3: April 23

Presenting

• Fabricio Olsson
• Marc Sciglimpaglia
• Margaretha Haughwout
• Alan Tollefson

Meeting 4: April 30

Presenting

• No.e Parker
• Tyler Freeman
• Andres Rojas
• Lindsey Bonk
• Satadru Bandrui

Meeting 5: May 7

Presenting

• Lea Cox
• Chau-Marie Griffiths
• Cynthia Payne
• Michael Luke Bullock
• Michael Treanor

Meeting 6: May 14

Presenting

• Monica Enriquez-Enriquez
• James Khazar
  
  

Guest Speaker

Michelle Reil, associate professor of new media and chair of the Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department at California State University Monterey Bay. Riel collaborates with turbulence.org on the networked_performance blog, documenting and presenting on emerging work that is both networked and live. She is an award winning designer and NEA commissioned net artist. Her current work, antSongs, is a responsive music system collaborating with ants to explore issues of sustainability, community, and globalism.

Meeting 7: May 21 :: Abstract and links

Lisa Wymore, assistant professor of dance at UC Berkeley and co-artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts; a dance-theater-performance group based in San Francisco. Her current project is entitled "The Resonance Project." It involves a team of choreographers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating 3-D presence/co- presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance.

Meeting 8: May 28 (memorial day)

No Meeting

Meeting 9: June 4

Last meeting

Presenting

• Angela N. Carroll
• Luci Kagaya
• Brendan Salmond
• Adam Jerugim
• Will Justice

Final: Thursday June 14, 4:00-7:00 P.M.