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Seminar schedule

Seminar schedule

Please find below the schedule for our seminar event on Wednesday 15 July

Theatre's New Realities

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: 

  • Jen Parker-Starbuck, Royal Holloway University of London

     

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

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 BST - Theatre's New Realities - Lunch

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85127594498?pwd=ZXlzSFAyb3JnWWNXa1BYbS85bndDUT09

Meeting ID: 851 2759 4498

Password: 097336

 

 

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

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 BST Theatre's New Realities - Drinks

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88604944409?pwd=K2FuNmNraXRWYlpPYWFXa0Vkb2xDdz09

Meeting ID: 886 0494 4409

Password: 305386

 

 

A work-in-progress showing of The View From Nowhere, a new comission by CREW.

Join on Zoom on 15th July at 5pm BST

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