IETM Istanbul

Working Group within IETM : Designing Perception (20 April 2006, ITU, Istanbul)
How does the use of digital technologies contribute to the issue of “designing perception” in interactive environment in the field of Digital Performance?
Moderator: Aylin Kalem
Speakers: Isabel Valverde, Ivani Santana, Emanuele Quinz
The debate will be concentrated on the corporeality of the audience/active participant in interactive installations and will also develop further into the corporeality of the performer in stage performances.Topics:- The issue of perception in interactivity- The relation of perception to corporeality- Alterations in the senses and the perception mechanism- Perception of the “self” and the “other”- Is it really possible to design the perception?- What are the problematic political issues in the design of perception?- How could the ones at the “Margins” be integrated in this process? How much is this crucial?
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Working Group within IETM : Meeting in the margins: Researcher and Artist
How does the use of digital technologies contribute to a transformation of art and society?Moderator: E. Ertan
Speakers: Oguzhan Ozcan, Marcel.li Antunez Roca , Rudolfo Quintas
Topics:- changing roles- collaborations between artist and researchers- Does technology help art to reach new / wider audience- Does technology help to the democratisation of arts?- Involvement of the communities at the “margins” to the use of technology- In which way does the meeting of art and technology contribute to the transformation of the society?- Technology and art in daily use.

Working Group within IETM : Staging New Media (22 April 2006, ITU, Istanbul)
– why technology questions dramaturgy and changes the status of the audience
Moderator: Hilde Teuchies
Speakers: Aylin Kalem (Techne, Digital Performance Platform, Istanbul) and Eric Joris (Crew, Antwerp), Armando Menicacci (Anomos/Mediadanse)
Focus of the debate is the use of new technology as core-element/starting point in theatre and the impact on the creative process.Topics to be addressed : - Are interactive installations really interactive?- When does new technology in theatre become more than just a sophisticated tool for illustration?- The transformation of the audience from on-looker to ‘immersant' / user / protagonist- Interactivity vs narrativity- reality as a key dramatical component?- thematising the failures: ‘Je ne peux plus connecter'