GENERAL: Dance and Technology.

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SFU CONFERENCE ON DANCE AND TECHNOLOGY ------------------------


Planned Events
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Planned events for the Conference on Dance and technology include a
computer telepresence link between Merce Cunningham from the
Jacob's Pillow Festival and the conference participants at SFU.
A keynote address will be given by Bob Lockyer, Director of Music
and Arts Television at the BBC, and internationally renowned for
his explorations of dance and the camera. A second keynote address
will be given by Myron Krueger, a pioneer in the field of artificial
reality, and author of the book, "Artificial Reality II".

An international Screening of dance video works curated by
Barbara Clausen selected from among recent work viewed at Dance Screen 93
in Frankfurt Germany along with selected conference video dance
submissions will be presented. An evening of new performance works
in dance and technology will also be featured. In order to bring
participants and delegates together, an international reception,
and night in downtown Vancouver will follow the evenings performance
events.

Interactive installations from movement artists in Germany, France
and Canada will be on display. Workshops exploring dance and virtual
reality, dance and computer graphics, dance and interactive lighting,
computer compositional tools for choreogarphy, dance and midi interactive
systems, dance notional systems, and multi-media computer systems for
dance will be offered.

Other offerings included technical sessions designed to give dance artists
an opportunity to see what is current and cutting edge in the world of
interactive multi-media and performance. Paper and panel sessions will
be given from dance artists around the world, including speakers from
Canada, England, Sweden, Germany, France, Portugal, Australia, and
the United States.

Conference Fees are $125 Canadian. (payable in Canadian funds, cheque
or bank draft) On campus housing is available, and must be booked
by June 11 l993, to ensure availability. For housing information
contact Suzanne Nazareeno, SFU Residences and Housing,
phone 604 291 4503.

for registration information contact:

Thecla Schiphorst, Conference Chair thecla@xxxxxxxxx
Sang Mah, Local Arrangements Chair sang@xxxxxxxxx
Computer Graphics Research Lab
Centre for Systems Science
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada, V5A 1S6

phone 604 291 3610
fax 604 291 4424
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