SEAM 2010: Agency & Action
The Seymour Centre is partnering with Critical Path, Sydney’s choreographic research centre, and the University of Western Sydney to present the 2010 SEAM symposium.
This year’s event will focus on interactive digital technologies in performance underpinned by groundbreaking artistic and academic research from Australia and around the world.
The two-day program will feature public talks, workshops, performances, and interactive installations, and will provide an opportunity for people to experience the cutting edge technology currently being explored in the performing arts.
Program highlights include:
- Keynote presentations by Frédéric Bevilacqua (IRCAM, Paris), head of the performing arts technology research team at IRCAM, and Christian Ziegler (Germany) a media artist from the ZKM centre; two of the pre-eminent institutions in the world for research in performance and digital arts.
- Gideon Obarzanek, the renowned choreographer and Artistic Director of Melbourne based contemporary dance company Chunky Move discussing the art/science collaborations in their works GLOW and Mortal Engine.
- The ‘Articulated Head’, Australia’s first thinking robot that is able to recognise faces, identify voices and talk to people, as well as mimic human movement and expression.
- Quartet the dancing robot, an Australian Council and Welcome Trust funded project which uses motion tracking technology to present an intimate duet between a 6 foot tall articulated robot and dancer.
Download a full program of events here.
To coincide with SEAM, the Seymour Centre will be presenting GLOW by celebrated dance company Chunky Move. A collaboration with the legendary interactive software creator Frieder Weiss, GLOW features innovative multi-media including motion capture tracking. Read more
SEAM participants can purchase tickets to any performane of GLOW for the special ticket price of $15 (usually $25). Contact the Box Office on 02 9351 7940 for more information and bookings.
To visit the SEAM website here.