INTIMACY: (Dis)Embodiment (Seminar)

Leader: PROF. PAUL SERMON, University of Salford

This seminar will identify and question the notions of embodiment and disembodiment in relation to the interacting performer in telematic and telepresent art installations.

At what point is performer embodying the virtual performer in front of them? And have they therefore become disembodied by doing so? A number of interactive telematic artworks will be looked at in detail during the seminar, establishing case-study examples to answer these questions. Stemming from Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz seminal work Hole-in-Space to Paul Sermon's telepresent experiments with Telematic Dreaming and to the current immerging creative/critical discourse in 'Second Life' that polarizes fundamental existential questions concerning identity, the self, the ego and the (dis)embodied avatar.

Saturday, December 08, 2007 from 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM (GMT)

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Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre
Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths
New Cross
SE14 6NW London
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INTIMACY

INTIMACY is a three-day digital and live art programme made to elicit connectivity, induce interaction and provoke debate between cutting edge artists, performers, leading scholars, respected researchers, creative thinkers and local community. A culturally urgent series of events, INTIMACY is designed to address a diverse set of responses to the notion of ‘being intimate’ in contemporary performance and as such, in life. Framed as a forum for artists, scholars, community workers, performers, cultural practitioners, researchers and creative thinkers, INTIMACY will feature workshops, seminars, performances, and a 1-day symposium at Goldsmiths College, Laban, and the Albany during December 7th-9th, 2007. Featuring performances, workshops, seminars and a symposium, INTIMACY invites scholars, researchers, artists and audiences to enable the interrogation and creative exploration of formal, aesthetic and affective modes of performing intimacy now. INTIMACY is co-directed and co-produced by: Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x] PhD Researcher Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck FLL drp01mc@gold.ac.uk Rachel Zerihan PhD Researcher School of Arts, Roehampton University; Sessional Lecturer Brunel University. INTIMACY Board: * Prof. Johannes Birringer Chair in Drama and Performance Technologies, School of Arts, Brunel University of West London; Choreographer. * Hazel Gardiner Senior Project Manager AHRC ICT Methods Network. * Prof. Adrian Heathfield School of Arts, Roehampton University; Writer; Curator. * Prof. Janis Jefferies Artistic Director Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University of London; Director Constance Howard Centre in Textiles; Artist; Curator. * Gerald Lidstone Head of Drama Department, Goldsmiths University of London. INTIMACY is supported by: * AHRC ICT Methods Network * Goldsmiths University of London * Knowledge East * Trinity Laban * The Albany * Home

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