Perform.Media is an international media arts festival and symposium creating an innovative venue for creative and intellectual work around the momentary process and performance in new media art and culture. We begin with the premise that newer media, along with modes of representation and narrative, embody momentary processes from roots in cybernetics and the biological, to the embodied performance of interface, improvised network exchanges and spontaneous social acts in multi-user synthetic worlds. Such mediated experiences and actions form meaning in sense experience and performance along with interpretive processes like depiction and reception. The dynamic, reciprocal process of the user(s) generating, configuring, interacting, choosing and authoring is an important component of new media and technologies, expressed in both the design of the media and in the momentary, improvised performance of the participant.
The festival and symposium seeks the accordance and collision of ideas through the lens of interdisciplinarity, exploring the performance of new media and the performative qualities of human-computer and technologically mediated social interaction. Perform.Media will examine sense experience and meaning at the threshold and in the performing action, along with the reflexive construction of narrative, where creative play, social practices, augmented embodiment and exploratory methods establish processes that spin out, overlapping locales of influence, in networked, “glocal”, mobile, participatory, socially interactive, live processed, locative, responsive and multi-user realms.
Perform.Media aims to examine and melt the usual spatial and temporal prescriptions of author and spectator in art, creative work and intellectual practice. Perform.Media traverses transdisciplinary territories in collaborations and social feedbacks of live sound+image, interactive and game media, HCI, improvisations, performance processes, interactive gallery environments, mobile and locative work, live art works, net.art, research practices, theoretical discussion, paper presentations, workshops, intimacy and communication both online and off.
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Andrew Bucksbarg, Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University
Co-Director
Leslie Sharpe, Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University
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Rosanne Altstatt, Independent Curator, Scholar of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University
Eli Blevis, Assistant Professor, School of Informatics, Indiana University
Colin Johnson, Assistant Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University
Galo Moncayo, Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, Indiana University
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Rob Shakespeare, Professor, Lighting and Sound Design, Department of Theater and Drama, Indiana University
Betsy Stirratt, Gallery Director, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University
Gracious Volunteers
Lawrence J. Murray II, Assistant Director, Admissions, MBA Program, Kelley School of Business
