[ecrea] TaPRA New Technologies WG - CFP

> TaPRA Conference 2010
>
> 6th Annual Conference 9-11 September
> 2009
> Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries 
> University of Glamorgan
>
>  
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS &
> CONTRIBUTIONS
>
> Working Group on New Technologies for Theatre & Performance
>
>  
>
> THEME: Accessing New Technologies for
> Performance
>
>
> For the 2010 TaPRA Conference from 9-11
> September at the University of
> Glamorgan, the New Technologies for the Theatre and Performance
> Working
> Group invites papers and presentations exploring the theme
> "Accessing
> New Technologies for Performance".
>
>
> The digital age has brought an unprecedented plethora of new
> presentation systems into the field of live performance. We are
> calling for proposals on practice and/or theory based research that
> consider issues surrounding the training of performance makers in
> dealing with "new" technologies. 
>
>
> Following on from the interim TaPRA symposium organized by the New
> Technologies for Theatre & Performance at the University of Sheffield
> on
> the 8th of May, we would like to probe deeper into the following
> questions:
>
> -       What precisely do we mean by new
> technology for theatre & 
>         performance in the 21st
> Century?
>
> -       When performing with technologies
> do we inevitably become 
>         technology-led?
>
> -       Does the inclusion of technology
> act to exclude women?
>
> -       Do we need open our discrete
> discipline bound courses in order
>         to allow more collaboration
> with the sciences in order to teach and/or
>         do research more
> successfully?
>
> -       Do we need more magicians in
> theatre schools?
>
>       
> We are also open to any other suggestion in relation to the selected
> theme.
>
>
> Please send a 250 word abstract/proposal, a short biographical
> statement, and an outline of technical requirements by 30 April 2010
> to
> the working group conveners: Mary Oliver
> (
> (M.Oliver /at/ salford.ac.uk)
> ), Toni
> Sant
> (
> (T.Sant /at/ hull.ac.uk)) and Carmen
> Szabo
> (
> (C.Szabo /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)
> ).
>
> Participants in the May 2010 symposium should send in a separate
> proposal if they would like to continue engaging with the theme in
> more
> depth at the September conference. This is an open invitation and
> seek
> to broaden the debate on this theme beyond the May symposium.
>
> Papers should take the form of 20 minute presentations followed by
> discussion.
>  
> Practice or performance-based proposals are welcome, as long as they
> engage thematically and rigorously with the working group theme, but
> these must be achievable with limited resources and within 20-30
> minutes.
>
> The New Technologies working group welcomes participants who do not
> wish
> to present a paper this year but would like to attend and contribute
> to
> the discussions; please contact the conveners by email upon
> conference
> registration to confirm your participation.  
>
> Further details about the TaPRA available at
>
> http://www.tapra.org
>
>
> _____________________________________________________________________
>  Dr Toni Sant
>  Subject Group Leader – Interdisciplinary Studies
>
>  School of Arts and New Media
>  University of Hull - Scarborough Campus
>  Filey Road, Scarborough - YO11 3AZ
>
>  Email: (t.sant /at/ hull.ac.uk)

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