Interfaces: Digital Performers, Digital Experiences & Digitized Audiences

Date: Wednesday 4 July 2018

TaPRA’s Performance and New Technologies Working Group proposes a day-long interim event on Wednesday4^thJuly 2018 at Buckinghamshire New Universityin High Wycombe, interrogating different modes of interaction and intimacy between performers, technologies and audiences/participants. We are particularly interested in staging practice-led work proposing new strategies and sensibilities emerging through these interactions and invite performers / performance makers to stage intermedial work of 20-30 minutes duration that raises / examines / explores the following concepts, processes or themes:

• live performance and augmented reality
• live performance and virtual reality
• interactive performers / interactive audience
• bodies enhanced by data, traceable and augmented by computation and bio-technology
• narrative possibilities created by digital technology
• networked interactive performances
• point to point streamed performance
• App performances / social media performances
• the virtual body and its images
• performances drawing on digital codification, appropriation, work & task
• headphone theatre and podcasts
• GPS enabled performance / mobile phone performance
• Psychasthenic performance (challenging embodied / representational space)
• digital palimpsests and perpetual mutations
• digital mnemotechnics / nostalgias
• embedded digital experiences and spaces of culture / heritage / the personal

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 £10 beforethe date of the event. 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 Jem Kelly – Jem.Kelly@Bucks.ac.uk Christina Papagiannouli – christina.papagiannouli@southwales.ac.uk Jo Scott – j.e.scott@salford.ac.uk. The deadline for the submission of proposals is Friday 8^th June 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.