Chair
Sarah Rubidge
Sarah Rubidge is a practising artist and Professor of Choreography and New Media at the University of Chichester. As a collaborative artist she develops choreographic digital installations that focus on the use of the somatic as the primary medium of communication (Sensuous Geographies, Fugitive Moments). Some of the installations initiate improvisational choreographies (formal and informal) that become integral choreographic elements of the installation (Passing Phases, Sensuous Geographies). Others draw on the histories embodied in the fabric of old buildings (Hidden Histories, Time & Tide). The works have been shown as far a part as London, Los Angeles, and Brisbane. Her writing addresses the interweaving of the philosophical concepts that are embodied in her work in order to advance understanding of the intricate interplay between artistic and philosophical practice.
Kasia Molga
Kasia Molga is interdisciplinary artists / interaction designer concerned connecting traditional techniques with cutting edge digital, working with mobile media, urban screens, data visualisation.
Pixelpusher (Evan Raskob)
Pixelpusher (Evan Raskob) is a contemporary multimedia artist whose works spans video, sound, installation, performance, and interactive art. Recent exhibitions include Waving / Drowning, a gallery show of human movements crystallized into a series of digital prints, sculptures, and interactive software, and Drawn Together, an interactive installation project exploring creative crowd sourcing in hand drawn music videos, featured at The Big Chill festival this past August.
Johannes Birringer
Сhoreographer and media artist. As artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co. he has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations and digital projects in collaboration with artists in Europe, the Americas, China, Japan and Australia. His recent production, the digital oratorio Corpo, Carne e Espírito, premiered in Brasil at the FIT Theatre Festival in 2008, and the interactive dancework Suna no Onna was featured at festivals in London. He is founder of Interaktionslabor Goettelborn in Germany and director of DAP-Lab at Brunel University, West London, where he is a Professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts. The Lab’s new mixed-reality installation UKIYO went on European tour in June 2010. His new book Performance, Technology and Science was released by PAJ Publications in 2009.
Sally Jane Norman
Sally Jane Norman is Professor of Performance Technologies at the University of Sussex. Her work on theatre and technology has been widely published internationally, and has underpinned workshops in motion capture, robotics and digitally extended performance at institutions such as the International Institute of Puppetry (Charleville-Mézières), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (Amsterdam) and Culture Lab (Newcastle University), which she established in 2006. As founding Director of the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Sussex, Sally Jane develops and promotes theoretical and practice-led performance research.