SATURDAY, 19.10 11.00 - 12.00 and 12.30 - 14.30

11.00 - 12.00 Lecture, videoscreenings: Scott DeLahunta - Introduction. Collisions, convergence and collaboration: where dance and technology meet.

The evolution of the relationship between contemporary dance practices and emerging technologies from the 1960s. Collaboration of dance and live performance artists and computer scientists and engineers. Creative processes and practices; software interfaces, telematic and installation spaces. Current situation, the importance of continuing a research and development approach when bringing together live performance and dance practices with digital technologies. Specific collaborative research projects: Software for Dancers; Hot Wired Live Art; the Motion Capture Research, Lab ("Swan Quake"); and Dance.Media.Net.

The formulation of a new Masters in Choreography in Amsterdam with a special focus on new media.

12.30 - 14.30 Scott DeLahunta: Open but moderated two-hour discussion about the new technologies in live performing arts and issues raised by the previous lectures.

Scott deLahunta is a writer and researcher (with Writing Research Associates and Dartington College of Arts) in the field of overlap between the practices associated with live performance and emerging technologies.

Writing Research Associates (WRA) is a European partnership whose principal partners, Dr. Ric Allsopp and Scott deLahunta, initiate and organise cross-disciplinary projects in the field of contemporary performance arts. WRA has produced and organised several international projects involving both workshop and conference formats in the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark and the United Kingdom.

Dartington College of Arts is a specialist university sector college for higher education and research in the arts and it has an international reputation for engagement with new and emerging performance arts practices

More information, online publications by Scott Delahunta: http://huizen.dds.nl/~sdela/

Gallery of Latvian Artist`s Union (Latvijas Makslinieku Savienibas galerija), 11. Novembra krastmala 35