Join us at Phoenix Brighton for an exciting one day experimental workshop in which we will explore how sense-responsive technology and performance tools can be used to investigate the sensing body
Phoenix Brighton is proud to be hosting this workshop which looks at how new technologies for sensing can inform the way we work as artists, researchers and physical practitioners. With performer Rachel Blackman and artist Kate Genevieve this practical one day workshop explores the range and extent of the sensory field through improvisation, movement explorations and sense-responsive technology.
We will explore a variety of technologies, from the Oculus Rift to interactive projections and multi-sensory illusion experiments. Rachel and Kate draw on a variety of models for understanding and experiencing the sensing body, from ancient maps of the body to contemporary neuroscience. Rather than considering whether technology awakens the senses or deadens them – we investigate presence and communication, set up provocations, make things, break things and wake up possibilities.
The workshop is open to all. We welcome people from diverse backgrounds; past participants have included movement practitioners, artists, anthropologists, technologists and students. You may be interested in how the sensing body is implicated by emerging technologies, or interested in cross-disciplinary collaboration between the worlds of performance and technology. Learning will also cover contemporary trends in media art, significant artists, scientists and technologists innovating in sensory technologies and the critical implications of such work.
Early booking recommended as places are limited. Kate and Rachel will be assisted by digital technologist Louis d’Aboville. Please see the Facebook page and the blog for further information.
Rachel Blackman is Artistic Director of Stillpoint Theatre, performer, writer and body worker. She creates award winning physically driven cross platform narrative works that explore contemporary themes. Her work is interested in the body as a site that gives utterance to the experience of life. She also runs regular workshops on kinaesthetic instinct, embodiment and performance.
http://stillpointtheatre.co.uk
Kate Genevieve is an artist, PHD researcher, educator and artistic director of CHRΘMA. CHRΘMA creates public and participatory events that challenge assumptions about the interface between the physical and the virtual, real and imagined worlds. CHRΘMA projects use performance together with immersive and interactive technologies, so that the audience’s perception, bodies and movement become a vital part of the action. Kate lectures on Creative Media and Digital Media art at the Universities of Brighton and Sussex.
Phoenix Brighton’s programme for Brighton Digital Festival celebrates some of the most innovative and internationally renowned artists working with digital technology in the city today. See http://www.phoenixbrighton.org for more information about our work. This workshop is part of Phoenix Brighton’s flagship Arts Courses Programme.
