e-Dance project

I’m going to be doing an on-line interview with Torsten Reimer on the www.arts-humanities.net website.  It will start some time towards the end of May.

I did an interview with Rachel Gibson today.  She has been commissioned by the Arts Council of England to carry out a survey of digital technology and new media in dance.  The aim of the survey is to create an overview of digital capacity in the dance sector.  It was really interesting to discuss where the e-Dance Project is at the moment and where the research is going to take us in the next few months and into next year.  It was particularly interesting to think about this project and its relationship to the professional dance/arts sector.  There is a real challenge for us to engage with that community and dissemnate what we are doing effectively. 

An abstract has been submitted to the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting “Crossing Boundaries” conference to be held this September at the National e-Science Centre, Edinburgh University.  The title is ‘Dancing on the Grid: the use of e-Science tools to extend choreographic knowledge and develop new practice-led research methodologies’.

Simon and I were in Edinburgh on 6-7 May at the Arts & Humanities e-Science Projects meeting.  The event was co-hosted by AHeSSC www.ahessc.ac.uk the three Research Councils and NESC www.nesc.ac.uk.  The two-day event brought together the representatives from the seven funded projects.  We gave a presentation on the first day.  You can see the powerpoint attached below.  We also did a poster session in the evening and had a chance to catch-up in a less formal context with some of the other project teams.  The second day was led by Tobias, Stuart and Torsten from AHeSSC and provided a really useful context for discussion.  We also had a quite detailed tour of the www.arts-humanities.net site which is really interesting.  Torsten is going to link the e-Dance website in to it, which will hopefully generate more interest in and dialogue around the project.  Simon and I had a really good chat about the interdisciplinary concepts driving the project.  In the powerpoint you’ll see some slides towards the end that begin to articulate some of the thinking.  Simon might add some further throughts on that.

edinburgh.pdf

This is a draft of the paper that will be presented at ISEA2008 in Singapore this July.   

isea-paper-draft.pdf