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University of California, Berkeley

April 23 - April 23, 2011

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The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents: FLESH AND MEDIA: An Interactive Salon Saturday, April 23, 6pm 170 Zellerbach Hall (Integrated Distance Lab/Dance Lab), UC Berkeley Free and open to the public At this interactive event, audience members will have an opportunity to engage with Active Space technology, which allows live performers to influence and interact with technical elements in a direct, immediate way. Following the interactive demonstration, there will be a panel discussion of the intersection of real-time video technologies and dance performance, featuring dance and media artist Ellen Bromberg (University of Utah, Townsend Fellow), intermedia artist and technology developer John Crawford (UC Irvine, Embodied Media + Performance and Technology Lab) and choreographer and ARC Affiliate Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies). The discussion will be moderated by Abigail de Kosnik, a faculty member in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies who is affiliated with both the Arts Research Center and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Directly following, there will be a 8pm performance of the Berkeley Dance Project “Stream: Dance and Technology,” featuring a new work by Bromberg and Wymore, in Zellerbach Playhouse (tickets $10-15).