Cambridge Arts Network: Performing through Streaming Media

Streaming has become ubiquitous during the Covid-19 pandemic, but are you aware that video streaming has been used in performance for more than 50 years and the telephone was originally designed to transmit live opera performances? This workshop will give you an historical overview of performing at a distance, discuss best practices for working with remote audiences, and introduce the software, cameras, microphones, and techniques most frequently used in 2020.

Kirk Woolford: kirk.woolford@aru.ac.uk

History

A new stage age: why theatres should embrace digital technology (2010): https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2010/mar/23/stage-theatre-digital-technology-ished

Electronic Cafe International (Hole in Space): http://www.ecafe.com/museum/history/ksoverview2.html

Telematic Dreaming, Paul Sermon: http://www.paulsermon.org/dream/

cyberSM: https://b.bhaptic.net/cybersm/

Diller + Scofidio Refresh: https://www.diaart.org/exhibition/exhibitions-projects/diller-scofidio-refresh-web-project/tim-rollins-and-k-o-s-prometheus-bound-web-project/home.html

Liveform Telekinetics: https://waag.org/en/project/liveform-telekinetics

Waag Connected: http://connected.waag.org/artistinresidence.html

The Virtual Embrace: http://telematic.walkerart.org/overview/index.html

Telematic Sonic Performances: https://thesampler.org/guest-editor/telematic-sonic-performance-part-1/

An overview of Telepresence: https://amedleyofpotpourri.blogspot.com/2018/06/telepresence.html