Emotional Computing: Performing Arts, Fiction and Interactive Experience.
The Banff New Media Institute
May 11 - 13, 2000

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http://www.banffcentre.ab.ca/nmi
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89.9fm in the bow valley

EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Performing arts and performance provide an invaluable resource with which to
examine next generation new media.  They combine physical discipline with
improvisation, narrative and provoke emotional experience for the artist,
the participant and the recipient.  The body in performance reminds us of
our humanity and vulnerability.  Emotional Computing searches for meaningful
as well as abstract strategies that bring together our understandings of
presence and absence.  Networked technologies such as microwave technology,
internet architectures, satellite communications and neural nets are just a
few examples of the available resource base for the arts of the future.
Performers can work the magic between the live event and the virtual
experience.  They might play with responsive (smart) costumes and props or
manipulate sound scapes and sets.  The audience can be an instrument in
interactive work.

This event explores and identifies research issues in cross-disciplinary
performing arts and new media. It continues Banff's discussions of
intelligent software design and responsive architecture. Participants will
investigate educational applications and the development of ongoing research
in this field.  Lead presenters are international artists from theatre,
choreography, music, design, computer science, engineering and performance
theory.  We will work at creating a vocabulary that is informed by the
canons of performing, visual and media arts and the acquisitions of new
media.


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