CROSS FAIR 2000 – DIE INTELLIGENTE BÜHNE
- Performance Symposium
- Thu 09.11.00 – Sun 12.11.00 00:59 h – 23:59 h
THE IDEA
Over the centuries the stage has provided us with a means of mirroring and organising reality. It tests and stretches our ingenuity and allows us to assimilate innovation and the changing nature of everyday life.
Applied on stage, digital media have the capacity to fundamentally alter our perception of actions and, thereby, open up completely new realms of creativity. Cross Fair 2000 looks at models and projects that are taking up new artistic challenges on stage and absorbing the fascination of artists and audiences alike.
THE PRACTICE
Cross Fair 2000 is an (inter)-active symposium that includes performance installations, lectures and working groups. Artists and academics concerned with interdisciplinary working practices in dance, theatre, music and digital media will introduce and discuss their concepts and approaches. As well as considering the advancing mechanisation of the stage, concrete models of interdisciplinary co-operations in dance, theatre and media art will be at the forefront of discussions.
THE EXCURSION
A visit to the GMD-Institut für Medienkommunikation in Bonn St. Augustin will feature a presentation of CAVE (automatic virtual environment) and experiments in the virtual studio and on the mixed reality stage.
THE PARTICIPANTS
The symposium is aimed at participants from all sectors of the performing arts, digital arts and technology, fine arts, music or media.
THE PODIUM (OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC)
In view of multimedia's inherent possibilities, is the proscenium stage now a fond relic of the past? Experts discuss the future of the stage and new experimental forms in dance and theatre in both theory and practice.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 09.11.
16:00 Welcoming Speeches | Stefan Hilterhaus (D)
17:00 Keynote: The moist scenario: steps towards a technoetic aesthetic | Roy Ascot (GB)
18:00 Introductional speach | Dr. Söke Dinkla (D)
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Public programme: Performance ›Yours‹ by Jarek Kapuscinski and Nik Haffner
Opening of the virtual installation ›Ghost catching‹ by Paul Kaiser and Bill T. Jones
Friday 10.11.
10:00 Virtual dance and the stage | Paul Kaiser, Riverbed (USA)
11:00 Media choreography with a motion platform
and other adventures in reconstructing dance | Jarek Kapuscinski (PL/D) and Nik Haffner (D)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 The electronic signal | Steina Vasulka (USA)
15:00 The Stage as a Media: new alliances between Musicians, Directors, Choreographers and Media Artists? | Louis-Philippe Demers (CAN)
16:00 Pause
16:30 Borderline: rebooting - stages | Michael Saup (D)
17:30 Discussion
20:00 Dinner
Saturday 11.11.
09:00 Theatricality of ›technological‹ interaction and the decentralisation of characters |
Martina Leeker (D)
10:00 Theater as hyperspace | Kerstin Evert (D)
11:00 Configuring the CAVE at the ICC Tokio and other intelligent stages | Jeffrey Shaw (D/AUS)
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Kinesfields | Gretchen Schiller (CAN)
14:30 Scanned | Christian Ziegler (D)
15:00 CAVE aesthetics, mixed reality and other stage models | Monika Fleischmann (D) und Wolfgang Strauss (D)
16:00 Pause
17:00 Excursion to the GMD-Institute for Media and Communication, Bonn-St.Augustin
20:00 Dinner in Bonn
Sunday 12.11.
11:00 Public programme: Panel discussion: – "The future of the stage"
Monika Fleischmann (GMD, St.Augustin), Wolfgang Strauss (GMD, St.Augustin), Bernd Stegemann (TAT, Frankfurt), Prof. Hans-Peter Schwarz (Hochschule für Gestaltung, Zürich), Henrike Thomsen (Theaterkritikerin, Berlin)