Thursday and Friday, September 8th and 9th 2022 at University of Greenwich, School of Design, Stockwell Street Building, London – and online.
A new Symposium, Extended Senses & Embodying Technology
– is organised in partnership between the University of Greenwich and the University for the Creative Arts (UCA)
and co-chaired by our very own Ghislaine Boddington with
Camille Baker from UCA. The primary focus of this symposium is the body as a
site of knowledge production. Topics include Bodily Interaction: Movement,
Gesture and Touch, Interfaces: Multimodal, Haptic, Textiles and Sensing and
Sustainability: Social, Ethical and Environmental.
This event takes place 22 years after Ghislaine’s pioneer Symposium
“Virtual Physical Bodies” in 1999 (shinkansen / Wayne McGregor –
Random Dance Company / Middlesex University), a debate that has become hugely
topical. For further insights on our long-term work across these decades,
please click here.
Are you interested in exploring the body as a site of knowledge production? The first Extended Senses & Embodying Technology Symposium, chaired by Camille Baker and Ghislaine Boddington, is taking place on 8-9 September 2022 at the University of Greenwich. The Symposium’s theme is extending the senses through engagement with technology and is a collaboration between The University for the Creative Arts and the University of Greenwich.
Selected artworks will also be exhibited at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery on 7-10 September 2022.
This two-day cross-disciplinary Symposium is an opportunity for networking and great knowledge exchange. We will bring together research and practice which explore ways to extend and expand the body through new and emerging modalities and technologies. It will feature a programme of presentations and installations investigating the intersection of technology and the arts and the diverse landscape of specialities which emerge in the wake of this crossover.
We will focus on immersion, haptic engagement and interfacing with technology as key methodologies for understanding the bridge between the analogue and the digital. This includes research exploring multimodal interfaces and human-technology interaction, dance, theatre, music and other performance modes, as well as artistic and design work that engages with technology to translate different embodied senses and experiential sensations.
More information about the symposium can be found here.
Both in-person and online tickets are available here.