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Project Collaborators and Contributors ______________________________________________________________________ Principal Investigators Gabriella Giannachi Associate Professor in Performance and New Media, University of Exeter. Her research focuses on new media art and performance, performativity and biotechnology, genomics and globalization, virtual, augmented and mixed reality and the information society. She is currently developing a number of projects in collaboration with artists and computer scientists from Europe and the US. Her principal publications include:
She is Director of the Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter and co-Director of Information Society Network (ISN) Nick Kaye Chair in Performance Studies, University of Exeter. He was previously Chair in Drama at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the history of post-war experimental performance, with emphasis on the relationship between theatre and the development of ideas and practices through distinct but related disciplines, including sculpture, architectural theory, conceptual and performance art, aspects of experimental music, installation, video art and video installation. A key theme of his research is relationships between critical practice and the documentation of live events. His publications include:
He has edited special issues of Contemporary Theatre Review and Performance Research and contributed to numerous arts and theatre journals. His research through practice has included the creation of multi-media performances presented in London, Dresden and Beijing. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Intermedia, University of Exeter. His forthcoming book, Multi-Media: video - installation - performance, is written in dialogue with commissioned documentations by the artists Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, The Builders Association, Fiona Templeton, Studio Azzurro and John Jesurun, and will be released by Routledge in March 2007. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Michael Shanks The Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classics, is an archaeologist at Stanford University, Director of Stanford Archaeology Centre’s. He co-directs, a groundbreaking trans-disciplinary centre of digital humanities. Two questions have driven his research into prehistoric Europe, Design - from Classical antiquity to the contemporary fine arts — How are we to understand people and societies through the things they make and leave behind? And - How are we to write the archaeological past on the basis of what is left behind? - a question of the documentation of event. This historiographic interest in documenting the presence of the past has led to a range of experimental work, including a major project with performance artist Mike Pearson — Theatre/Archaeology, defined as the re articulation of fragments of the past as real-time event. His many major publications include:
From 1997 to 2004 Michael was a Company Director of Brith Gof, a leading multimedia and performance company working in Europe. Michael's Metamedia Lab applies an archaeological sensibility to media new and old. Mel Slater Professor of Virtual Environments in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. Before that he was Head of Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was visiting professor in Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley (1991 and 1992) and Visiting Scientist at the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics, Sensory Communications Group (1998). His research has concentrated on immersive virtual environments since 1991. He is co-Editor in Chief of the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press). Mel leads the VECG "Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics" research team of 25 expert theorists and designers, part of the Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments Group at UCL. He has been an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow since 1999. He leads a new European consortium (PRESENCCIA) under the European FET Presence Research call. His publications include:
Research Team David Swapp, Project Research Associate, University College London David Swapp is a research fellow in the Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments group at University College London, and also the manager of its Immersive VR Laboratory, working mostly with projects in Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics. His main research interests are perceptual issues in VR; understanding such issues is crucial to making the best use of available technology to design VR hardware, simulations and the software that renders them. Before coming to University College London he was a research fellow in the Psychology Department at Reading University looking at perception and way finding in virtual environments. Marco Gillies, Research Fellow, Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics Research Theme, Department of Computer Science, University College London. Peter Hulton, Senior Research Fellow, Exeter University Peter is Senior Research Fellow in the University of Exeter. He is founder and director of Arts Archives - an international digital moving image resource for performance practice research - and has worked with Cambridge University Press and Routledge, among others, to produce documentary DVD-ROMs for their publication list. He is a past recipient of the John Whiting Award for New Drama and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. For the Presence project, Peter will be documenting our series of [6 workshops in 6 months], January to June 2006, the Performing Presence project conference in 2009, and supporting the design and construction of our project DVD-ROM. Laura Cull, AHR doctoral student, Exeter University Artist-researcher, with interests in the potential relationships between the theory and practice of performance, between Live Art and theatre, and between performance processes and ethical investigation. Coming from a Fine Art background (Slade School), she also has an MA in Cultural Studies (Goldsmiths College) and was Project Officer for the PARIP project (Bristol University) before becoming an AHRC Research Student on the Performing Presence Project (Exeter University). She has presented her performances and other works in a variety of contexts in the UK and abroad. Stefanie Huhn, AHRC doctoral student, Exeter University Free-lance Dramaturg and Assistant Director for several opera productions, among others at the theatres of Giessen (Germany) and Luzern (Switzerland). She is currently an AHRC Research Student of the Presence project (Exeter University). Her main research interests focus on contemporary opera and the interfaces of theatre with digital environments. With ‘ The Virtualisation of Opera: (Dis)simulation of body and space in contemporary, (new) media-based opera performance’, she aims to investigate how the application of new technologies in theatre modifies the presence of the performer. Collaborating Artists and Scientists Moe Angelos, actor/performer, New York. Dan Dobson, composer/performer, New York. Blast Theory, mixed reality gaming and performance company, London Mike Brookes, performance artist and writer, Cardiff UK The Builders Association, multi-media theatre company, New York Tim Etchells, Director of Forced Entertainment, performance and digital media company, Sheffield UK James Gibbs, founder dbox, New York Ken Goldberg, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), UC Berkeley Allen Hahn, lighting designer, New York/Pittsburgh. Lynn Hershman Leeson, performance and media artist, A.D. White Professor, Art Department, Cornell University Gary Hill, video artist, Seattle and New York Annie Hudson, performer, London Bella Merlin, actress and theorist, Exeter UK Rizwan Mirza, actor and singer/composer, New York Vayu Naidu, performance storyteller, Canterbury UK Tony Oursler, video, installation and digital artist, New York Mike Pearson, performance artist, Professor of Performance, University of Wales Aberystwyth David Pence, actor/musician, Maine, USA. Klaus Seewald, actor and director, Theatre ASOU, Graz, Austria Tanya Selveratnam, writer, actor, film producer and activist, New York Paul Sermon, telepresence artist, Reader in Creative Technologies, Salford University Tilda Swinton actor/performance artist, UK Fiona Templeton, performance artist, New York and London Marianne Weems, artistic director, [The Builders Association], multi-media theatre company, New York Jeung-Sook Yoo, actress, actor trainer, director, and PhD researcher, Exeter Phillip Zarrilli, Professor of Performance Practice and theatre practitioner, Exeter University Forum Contributors Rajinder Dudrah, Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Drama, University of Manchester. Matthew Goulish, performer and writer, founder member of Goat Island, Chicago. Sita Popat, Lecturer in Dance in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds.
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