Please find below the schedule for our seminar event on Wednesday 15 July
Theatre's New Realities
9.00 - 9.50 BST: Social space
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86095447948?pwd=YmFYdE1pTHZjMHNrTXI5SUxlWFM4Zz09
Meeting ID: 860 9544 7948
Password: 324127
10.00 - 11.00 BST: Session 1: Technology
This panel will examine AR and VR tools in performance practice, focusing on their application, possibilities and future development.
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Participants:
- Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham
- Ollie Lindsay, Founder and Creative Director of All Seeing Eye
Moderator:
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Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway University of London
11.20 – 12.20 BST: Session 2: Institutions
This panel will discuss the possibilities and challenges faced by institutions and organisations in programming AR and VR performance and attracting audiences.
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Participants :
- Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Jonathan Thonon, European Project Manager at Théâtre de Liège, Belgium and European Theatre Convention
Moderator :
- Adam Ganz, Reader in Screenwriting and Head of Writers Room at StoryFutures Academy, Royal Holloway University of London
12.30 – 13.30 BST: Session 3: Dramaturgy
This panel will explore questions of storytelling, worldbuilding and other narrative strategies for AR and VR performance.
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Participants:
- Eric Joris, Founder and Artistic Director of CREW collective, Belgium
- Chiel Kattenbelt, Associate Professor in Media Comparison and Intermediality, Utrecht University
- Aneta Mancewicz, Lecturer, Royal Holloway University of London
Moderator:
- Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway University of London
13.30 – 14.10 BST: Lunch and Social space
13:30 BST - Theatre's New Realities - Lunch
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85127594498?pwd=ZXlzSFAyb3JnWWNXa1BYbS85bndDUT09
Meeting ID: 851 2759 4498
Password: 097336
14.10 – 15.10 BST : Session 4: Making
This panel will be devoted to processes and strategies for collaborative AR and VR performance making.
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Participants:
- Andy Lavender, Vice Principal and Director of Production Arts at Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
- Tim White, Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Moderator:
- Åste Amundsen, Royal Holloway University of London
15.20 – 16.20 BST : Session 5: Interactive Presentation on Embodiment
In this session, Joris Weijdom will attempt to give an experimental interactive presentation from within NEOS VR about the development of the site-responsive 36Q° Blue Hour VR performative mixed-reality installation as showcased at the Prague Quadrennial 2019.
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Participants:
- Joris Weijdom, researcher and designer of Mixed Reality experiences, Utrecht University
Moderator:
- Eirini Nedelkopoulou, Lecturer, University of Glasgow
16.30 - 17.00 BST : Social space
16:30 BST Theatre's New Realities - Drinks
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88604944409?pwd=K2FuNmNraXRWYlpPYWFXa0Vkb2xDdz09
Meeting ID: 886 0494 4409
Password: 305386
17:00 - 17:30 BST : Virtual Theatre by CREW
A work-in-progress showing of The View From Nowhere, a new comission by CREW.
