Drama and Theatre Studies

event: Pixilerations

Pixilerations is a New Media festival in Providence, Rhode Island that investigates the state of New Media arts through installations, concert performance and film/video screenings. The festival is part of the larger FirstWorks Festival held each fall (www.first-works.org), Providence¹s multidimensional performing arts festival. Pixilerations is produced by FirstWorks in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University and 5 Traverse Gallery.

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new media art
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Drama and Theatre Studies
Media
Visual Arts
By Lydia Horstman at Fri, 08/05/2009 - 10:45

event: Research Into Practice Conference 2008

The problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.

Registration is still open for the 5th Research into Practice conference. The event itself will take place at the Royal Society of Arts in London.

The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on emerging theories of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts. The keynote speakers will be W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) and Griselda Pollock (Leeds).

You can register online at
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/res2prac/regcgi2008...

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Art Practice
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Drama and Theatre Studies
Visual Arts
By Lydia Horstman at Thu, 09/10/2008 - 11:42

project: Mapping performance culture: Nottingham 1857-1867

Grant Holder: Dr Jo Robinson
This project investigates the performance culture of Nottingham, 1857-1867. In a key collaboration between theatre history and geographical information science it will develop an intuitive interactive map and research database, which will layer social, cultural and economic data onto a spatial representation of the town. [read more]

project: Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database

Grant Holder: Dr Katharine Cockin
This project will result in a fully searchable, web-based database catalogue which describes in detail the papers of the Victorian actress, Ellen Terry (1847-1928) and her daughter, the theatre director, Edith Craig (1869-1947). A descriptive catalogue will also be created from the database and will be published in book format. The papers recorded in this project are owned by the National Trust at Smallhythe Place, Tenterden, Kent, the former home of Ellen Terry. [read more]

eventresources: The Potential of High Speed Networks as a New Space for Cultural Research, Innovation and Production

Report and materials from the Methods Network seminar developed by Graziano Milano in partnership with King's College London and the MARCEL Network, supported by University of London Computer Centre, at Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College, London (19 March 2007).

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Audio interaction (asynchronous)
Audio interaction (synchronous)
Resource sharing
Streaming media
Discipline: 
Dance Studies
Drama and Theatre Studies
Media
Music
By Torsten Reimer at Wed, 30/07/2008 - 18:36

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