KEYWORDS
Interactive, Reactive and Real-time Interfaces for Live Media, Sound, Music and Performance
WHAT IS N.I.P. 2007?
N.I.P. - New Interfaces for Performance is a European tour and workshop series. N.I.P. is about supporting artists who are working on developing new modes of interaction in live performance. The first series will focus on gesture and movement as the means to engage, trigger and interact in realtime with live media, sound, music and performance based works.
The theme for the 2007 N.I.P. series is on gesture and movement within live performance. This refers to interfaces, which use movement, hand and body gestures, or touch as the means through which to make or interact with the work.
Over 2007 three NIP events will take place in Bristol, UK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Lisbon, Portugal. At each location a lead artist has been selected to facilitate a three-day workshop, which will be attend by artists invited from the UK, The Netherlands and Portugal. As part of the tour, at each location, lead and participating artists will give public performances and talks.
WHO IS INVOLVED?
Lead artists:Zachary Lieberman, US
Michel Wasisvisz, NL
Christina Kubish, DE and Lotta Melin, SWE
Participating artists:
Teresa Dillon, Kathy Hinde, Tom Bugs and Torsten Lauschmann, UK
Andr� Gon�alves, Andr� Sier and Rudolfo Quintas, PT
Tom Verbruggen, Sonia Cillari and Isaac Carlos, NL
WHEN AND WHERE?
Over 2007 in Bristol, UK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Lisbon, Portugal - see below for details
Workshop 1 and Live Performances
Location: Bristol, UK
Dates: 30th March - 1st April 2007
Workshop Lead: Zach Lieberman (US), Visual artist working with sound and image using gestural interfaces for performance and public interaction.
Workshop 2 and Live Performances
Location: STEIM, Amsterdam
Center for Research and Development of instruments and tools for performers in the electronic performance artsDates: 19th - 21st June 2007
Workshop Lead: Michel Waisvisz (NL), Composer, performer and instrument maker and the director of STEIM. Working in the area of hand held interfaces/instruments for live performance in a variety of contexts.
Workshop 3 and Live Performances
Location: Restart, Lisbon Media, training and performance centre
Dates: 19th-21st September 2007
Workshop lead artists: Christina Kubisch (DE), sound artist and composer and Professor for Sound Art, Saarbrucken, Germany and Lotta Melin (SWE), sound artist + dancer. Both artists collaborate together and work across theatre, dance and installation, using a variety of sound sources (magnetic fields, solar power, sensors etc) to create work interactive and live performance works.
SUPPORT AND THANKS
Thanks to the Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Restart, Lisbon, Portugal for their input into the project and to the PRS Foundation, the Mondriaan Foundation and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for their support.