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From: 5 March 2009 | Time: 13:00
To: 5 March 2009 | Time: 14:00
Location: Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester, Manchester
Organiser:Dr. Marzieh Asgari-Targhi
Contact details: Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 4723Email:marzieh.asgari-targhi@manchester.ac.uk
Category: NCeSS Seminars » First Seminar Series

Dr. Sally Jane Norman will be giving this seminar at NCeSS on the 5th of March. Expressive gesture constitutes a rich research crossroads for a wide range of artists, technology developers and cultural theorists. Computer-aided affordances to more responsively convey embodied interaction are likewise a critical development area. This presentation will cover issues explored by some of the practice-led performance technologies projects in which I have been involved, to emphasise the unique value of interdisciplinary insights in this area, and particularly that represented by performing artists working with expressive gesture.

Dr Sally Jane Norman, Director of Culture Lab at Newcastle University will be giving a seminar at NCeSS on the 5th of March. Bio As a theorist and practitioner trained in theatre history (Doctorat de IIIe cycle, Doctorat d?état, Institut d?études théâtrales, Université de Paris III) Sally Jane works on links between art, science and technology. Her promotion of creative practice has involved collaboration with institutions including the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam and IRCAM, Paris. She has been engaged for over a decade on European Framework Programmes and international interdisciplinary consultancy missions. As founding Director of Culture Lab, an interdisciplinary digital research hub at Newcastle University for creative practice-led collaborations, she has initiated e-science research involving performing artists, designers and programmers, to develop original cross-sector tools for searching motion capture databases. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/s.j.norman