[Commlist] CFP: Immersive and Interactive Technologies and Live Performance/ TaPRA Performance & New Technologies WG Interim Event

Call for Papers/Presentations

*Immersive and Interactive Technologies and Live Performance: VR/AR/MR 
practices*

*TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Working Group Interim Event*

Saturday 6^th April 2019, University of South Wales, Cardiff Campus, The 
ATRiuM

*Call deadline: 15 February*

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*Confirmed Keynote Speaker: *Jorge Lopes Ramos (executive director ZU-UK).**

*Launch & Wine Reception:* Launch of Performance and VR Practice special 
issue, IJPADM. Wine reception and conversation with Kerry Francksen and 
Sophy Smith (eds.).

Following on from the annual conference at Aberystwyth and previous 
group events and conversations, the aim of the 2019 interim event is to 
explore different practices and modes of immersive and interactive 
technologies in live performance, as well as to investigate new 
narrative possibilities and audiences’ virtual experiences in live 
performance created by immersive technologies. As Kerry Francksen and 
Sophy Smith (2018) note, ‘[t]he use of virtual reality (VR) technologies 
has seen a significant resurgence in both industry-led and artistic 
communities in recent times. This re-emergence can be linked to the 
continuing growth and advancement in smart phone technologies (e.g. 
developments in accelerometers and gyrospic chips), as well as a 
significant interest within the games industry for developing a greater 
quality gaming experience.’ We want to explore this emergent theme and 
extend the 2018 TaPRA working group’s discussions on /Empathy and 
Inclusiveness in Immersive Technologies/ to question: What new tools and 
spaces do immersive technologies offer to theatre and live performance? 
What opportunities and challenges do immersive technologies bring to the 
digital performer/performance-maker, from new forms of 
audience/participant interaction to new performance training 
methodologies, to new rehearsal methods and documentation strategies?

The Performance and New Technologies Working Group welcomes 15-20 minute 
practice-based responses, provocations, lecture-demonstrations and 
papers, exploring and reflecting on immersive and interactive 
technologies and live performance. Proposals may respond to, but are not 
limited by, the following prompts:

·live performance and virtual/augmented/mixed reality

·narrative possibilities created by immersive technologies

·immersive technologies and audience experiences

·app/social media performances

·embedded virtual experiences and spaces of culture / heritage / the 
personal

·empathy and inclusiveness in immersive technologies


This is a one-day event, with tea/coffee and lunch included and all 
participants must be TaPRA members. *If you are not currently a member, 
you will be asked to join the organization at the interim rate of £15 
via http://tapra.org/join-tapra/ before the date of the event. *

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Please submit a 300 word abstract, outlining your proposed contribution 
to the day, alongside an indication of your technical requirements and 
set up needs, and a short biographical statement to 
(perfandnewtech /at/ tapra.org) <mailto:(perfandnewtech /at/ tapra.org)>. The deadline 
for the submission of proposals is Friday 15^th February.

We also have £50 travel bursaries to facilitate postgraduate and 
non-affiliated artists/researchers attending this interim event, so 
please note on your proposal if you would like to be considered for a 
travel bursary.

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