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NEWS ARCHIVE AND UPDATES:
1999
AlienNation Co's dancevideo, "TRAILS," premiered at the "extremely
shorts II" film/video festival at the Aurora Picture Show,
Houston, 1999. "Trails" features Angeles Romero and Johannes Birringer
in a poetic adaptation of Nijinsky's autobiographical writings on Life and
Death.
2000
Johannes taught a workshop
on "New Environments/Parameters for Dance Technologies" at the Dancing
with the Mouse Conference at TCU, Fort Worth, October 13. This is a conference
for practitioners striving to integrate their knowledge of where dance education
and technology intersect.
In November, Johannes participated in the "Cross Fair" Symposium on Intelligent Stages, organized by the Choreographisches Zentrum NRW in Essen, Germany.
In December, Johannes joined a brainstorming conference at the ISA (Arizona State University) for the creation of ADAPT, a new partnership in telepresence/telematic projects.
2001
From May 7 -13,, Johannes participated in the Second International Conference
on Art and Technology at the University of Brasilia. Brazil. He also lectured
at the Semiotics and Dance Graduate program at PUC in Sao Paulo. A new work,
the "Vespucci" film installation, was shown in Brasilia and Sao
Paulo.
From May 18-20, Johannes presented new research ("Dance
and Network Environments") at the "Subtle Technologies" Conference
in Toronto, Canada.
For more information on the event, visit the "SubtleT"
website
From May 25-27, Angeles performed in a new play directed and created by the Canadian
company dadaKamera. The play was shown at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus.
On May 25, Serena Lin's new video installation opened at Women and their
Works Gallery in Austin, Texas.
In October,
Johannes organized a roundtable on "Dance and Telematics" for the
CORD Conference in New York City. In November, Johannes presented a film lecture
on dance media at the Tanzhaus Duesseldorf (Germany), and then gave a film
lecture on "Dance and Telepresence" at the congress "Wissen
schaffen über Tanz", Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
On December 14,, members of AlienNation Co, met at the TransArt Foundation in Houston to look at films of recent projects by Serena Lin, Wendy Aldwyn and Johannes, and plan the next production phase in March 2002.
2002
in March, Johannes participated in the Production Research Forum "RealTime"
organized by CYNETEart (Dresden) and the O1plus Institute in Nuernberg (Germany).
Plans were made for the creation of an interactive environment during a workshop
at Hellerau in July 2002. "East by West," collaboratively created
by Sher Doruff, Orm Finnendahl and Johannes Birringer premiered in July 2002
at the Festspielhaus in Hellerau, and will be recreated at DEAF 2003 in Rotterdam
(The Netherlands).
May 8-12: RePerCute: Johannes traveled to the HyperMedia Studio (Los Angeles) and participated in a weekend meeting organized by the program on Digital Cultures: Reflexiones sobre Performance, Cultura y Tecnología -- un diálogo multicultural entre artistas Latinoamericanos y Norteamericanos sobre las transformaciones ocurriendo en nuestras culturas y las correspondientes expresiones en el arte performático.
November 2002: premiere of "Here I come again/Flying Birdman," a polysite telepresence performance involving 5 remote sites in the US and 2 sites in Brazil.
December 2002: "finally a place..." opens at the Trans-Site Studio in Houston.
2003
In February 2003, Johannes presents "East by West," an interactive telepresence environment created with Sher Doruff, Orm Finnendahl, and Arjen Keesmaat,, at DEAF2003, the electronic arts festival organized by V2 in Rotterdam.
March 2003: premiere of "Sueño," a new multimedia play written and performed by Angeles Romero. Mount Hall, Columbus.
May 2003: "Body Art and Technological Transformation," workshop directed by Johannes at "Flesh Made Text," conference at Aristotle University, Thessaloniiki, Greece
March 2003: Serena Lin presents "Tremors, and Other Minor Disturbances" at Lawndale Art Center in Houston.
July 1- Juli 14.2003 Interaktionslabor: Communications Technologies, Interactive Media & Virtual Environments. Göttelborn Coal Mine - Saarland, Germany. Johanes takes on curatorial organization and directorship of laboratory.
2004
July 2004 Interaktionslabor 2, "Adaptive Systems." Göttelborn Coal Mine - Saarland, Germany. Johannes continues curatorial organization and directorship of laboratory.
October-November 2004 "Dance and Physical Camera," masterclass directed by Johannes. Beijiing Dance Academy, China,
October 2004, "Cuerpos Ambulantes," written and performed by Angeles Romero, premieres at Theatre Festival in Cadiz, Spain.
November 2004 "Physical Camera and Telematic Performance," Powerhouse, Live Art Digital Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University. Coordinated by Johannes.
November 2004 Screenplay: "Games Cultures," Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK. Organized by Johannes.
December 1-4 2004 "Synaesthesia and Multimedia," University of Erfurt, Erfurt. Johannes is one of four guest artists directing this workshop.
December 14-18, 2004 "Real time, Light, Space:" Monaco Dance Forum workshop series, Monaco. Johannes directs the workshop series.
2005
March - May 2005: DAP Lab: "design and performance" project initated at the Nottingham Powerhouse, bringing together performance artists, fashion designer,s visual artists, media artists and engineers.
June 2005: "MotionBound to Virtual Skeleton," Johannes lectures at dance technology workshop, essexdance, Chelmsford (UK)
June 2005: "TransNet, Performance and Science," Johannes participates as associate researcher in international workshop at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
June 2005: "Physical Camera and Telematic Performance," Johanens directs a workshop for PARIP, University of Leeds
July 2005 Interaktionslabor 3, "Streaming Poetry." Göttelborn Coal Mine - Saarland, Germany. Johannes continues curatorial organization and directorship of laboratory."Cançġes dos olhos/Augenlieder," a new intermedia song cycle is created by Johannes, Paulo C. Chagas and Veronica Endo. The multichannel sound and dance film is premiered live at the Gray Gallery, Coal Mine Göttelborn.
September 2005: "The emergent dress," dual film exhibition, shown at Wearable Futures, Newport, Wales. This is an extension of the DAP LAB project Johannes initiated with Michèle Danjoux in Nottingham.
October 2005: IMAP, transEuropean project, performance-writing workshop, PACT Zollverein, Essen (Germany)
November 28- December 4: Digital Cultures Lab and Conference: Johannes organizes an international dance and technology workshop and festival, which features new dance works, screenings, and installations, with the week-long event ending in a conference attended by more than 200 delegates.
2006
Aliennation Co. members meet in Houston to start production plans for "After a Life: Journey to the Center of the Earth". In addition, company members began writing-project for a book on "Theatre and Video."
In the spring of 2006, Johannes Birringer directed two workshops in dance and new media/telematics, in Istanbul, Turkey (TECHNE Festival), April 1-8, and in Sydney, Australia (Performance Space), May 1-7. Out of the Sydney workshop, a collaboration emerged on a film installation with Daniel Kojta and a group of video artists: Alien Presence H [handmade echo] is presented at the 2006 Sidney Biennial.
He also has co-produced a cycle of production workshops for "I-Map,"
a trans-european theatre project that connects four media labs (Athens, Sofia,
Amsterdam, Goettelborn) in four different countries. The last workshop before
the public premiere of the work in Athens (September 2006) was held at
the Interaktionslabor Goettelborn, Germany, the interactive medialab Johannes founded
five years ago (http://interaktionslabor.de). The "I-Map" project
was awarded an EU grant by the EU Culture 2000 framework program, and culminated
in the production of the live game, See you in Walhalla, first shown
at Athens in September 2006. Walhalla was invited to the Greek Theatre
Festival in June 2007, and is now touring internationally.
In May 2006, Johannes delivered a keynote address to the annual conference
of the German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE)
at the University of Augsburg, Germany. At the IN TRANSIT festival, an annual
performance event created by the House of World Cultures, Berlin (Germany),
he conducted a lab on neuroscience, mind-body relations and dance research
together with choreographer Jayachandran Palazhy (India) and Fabiana Dultra
Britto (Brazil). At the Performance Studies International conference on "Performing
Rights," June 2006, he moderated a roundtable on "Duty of Care"
with Australian performance diver Sarah Jane Pell and Arts Catalyst curator Rob
La Frenais. In September, he presented films on new prototype developments
of the 'ScreenDress,' with fashion designer Michèle Danjoux, at the
DRHA festival, Dartington College of the Arts. Another exhibition of this
digital project was shown at CLEAR, the Center for Landscape and
Environmental Arts Research at Cumbria Institute of the Arts in Carlisle in
October 2007. A new version of the Kluver film was featured at the Prague
Quadrennial "design in motion" festival in June 2007.
In December 2006, Johannes directed a dance-technology workshop studio on
"Inscribing Dance in a New Space" at the biannual Monaco
Dance Forum in Monte Carlo, the leading international dance festival
dedicated to new media technologies in the art form.
2007
Angeles Romero submits grant application to Houston Arts Council and is awarded an Individual Artist Grant Award, funded by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Allianceshops. During her grant residency, she completed writing her latest, and most substantial play to date, "Puntos de Fuga" (Vanishing Points). A public stage reading was held at Talento Bilungue, December 21, 2007.
In January-February, Johannes begins collaboration with composer Paulo C. Chagas on the creation of a new chamber opera on F. Bacon, Corpo, Carne e Espirito, commissioned to be premiered in Brasil. The concert-film Canções dos olhos, created with Chagas and Peruvian dancer Veronica Endo, was selected for the Brasilian video festival Dança em Foco, Rio de Janeiro, August 2007.
In April, Johannes gave the keynote presentation at the opening
of the "Ideas in Motion" festival at CYBERARTS Boston, USA. Canções
dos olhos was screened at SARC's spring concert series in Belfast
(Northern Ireland) on February 1, 2007. In the spring, he also directed a
masterclass for the Movement, Sound and Network Project at SARC Belfast,
which concluded with the premiere of The Cube - an audio-visual
interac tive installation - on June 4, 2007.
On June 12-13, Johannes directed a panel discussion on new developments
in choreography for the Screen/interactional choreography at the Moves International
Screen Choreography Conference in Manchester.
In mid-November, he directed the "Movi-Lab" in digital performance at
the a_m_b_e_r 07 Festival in Istanbul, Turkey, and delivered a keynote
address on current experimental work in the performance field. Later that
month, he acted as coordinator and editor
for the CYNET Computer Art Festival07_encounter in Dresden (Germany).
This year's event is named "Telematic Plateaux" and features several
telepresence installations at Festspielhaus Hellerau.
The premiere of the new design-movement work Suna no Onna, with fashion
designer Michèle Danjoux and the performers and digital artits of the
DAP ensemble, was December 8, 2007, at the Laban Centre, London, in conjunction
with a workshop festival on "Intimacy:
Across Visceral and Digital Performance", curated by Goldsmiths
College.
2008
In the summer of 2008, Johannes will direct a masterclass at Belo Horizonte's 9th International Theater Festival in Brasil. In the spring and summer of 2008, production rehearsals for a new chamber opera, Corpo, Carne e Espirito, created with composer Paulo C. Chagas, will be completed.
