Dartington CALF Week.mov

CALF (Creating Academic Learning Future).

CALF Technology and Performance Playweek took place at Dartington College of Arts, UK between 8th and 11th Feb 2010.

Here's some background:
The field of Choreography at UCF/ Dartington Campus ran a THINKTANK together with the CALF research group (technology in education) and TLS staff last year, looking into technology in performance. The day consisted of student performances (3 of our final year students were working with technology) and an afternoon of discussion and debate.

One of the outcomes of that afternoon was the idea for a time of experimentation a studio set up with various bits of technology for both performers and technicians to spend time researching ideas and exploring possibilities. We have now set up a 4-day-long lab (or play-week) in week 8th Feb 2010. We will be in 2 studios at Aller Park (Dartington Campus) and five members of staff and technicians will come up from Falmouth to set up, run equipment and collaborate on ideas from Mon Thursday.

We thought it would be great to have a combination of a small number staff, students and practising artists who are interested in technology in performance to have time for dedicated research. In other words around 10-12 people can explore ideas in some depth rather than having large numbers of participants scratching the surface.

The technology on offer:
The technologies were planning to explore are aspects of physical computing including collaborative musical instruments, augmented reality and an interactive floor with aspects of computer vision. There will also be a session on using the new workspace collaborative system developed exclusively for UCF in conjunction with Learning Technology.

Programming Language:
Reactible Collaborating Musical Experience
Computer Vision
High Definition Video Conferencing
I Cube
Colaab
Audio Tool

Participants:
on the technology side;
John Sumpter, Jane Nevin, Oliver Scott
choreography field;
Sheri Burt, Cassie Osborne, Tom Kindell, Noel Perkins
art field;
Charlotte Still
music field;
Greg Debicki, Jack Harris
performance writing field;
Steve Booth, Seb Hauwalker
theatre field;
Mads Anderson

Organisers:
for choreopgraphy;
Susanne Thomas, Rosanna Irvine
for CALF;
Kareanne Knight
for LS;
Ben Bull

Further perticipants, researchers, documenters and visitors;
Sandra Romenska (CALF @ UoL)
Magda Tyzlik-Carver
Tim Shear
Andrew Harbert
Christopher Engdahl
Rebecca Whiteman
Amy Sampson and Louise Martin
Damian Hogan

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• choreography
• performance
• technology
• Dartington