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ke∂ja Oslo - workshop/lab
5'th-9'th October a group of 12 nordic artists specially selected from the ke∂ja Oslo seminar participants took part in a five day lab with Dr. Johannes Birringer. The lab was entitled ‘Performance on the Edges: Physical / Digitial Media Environments’ and was developed in relation to the theme of this fourth encounter.
The selected artists were: Sintija Silina (LV) Laura Navndrup Pedersen (DK), William Iles og Sini Haapalinna (FI), Helle Siljeholm and Sarah Christophersen (NO), Katrín Gunnarsdóttir and Katrín Dagmar Beck (IS), Charlotta Ruth and Dominique Grünbühel (SE/AUS). Dance Information Norway collaborated with Atelier Nord who hosted the lab, and selected the two final members for the workshop.
The workshop had an open presentation 9’th of October, at Atelier Nord.

SEMINAR
Dance and new media is interdisciplinary in nature and ke∂ja Oslo was the first pan Nordic-Baltic encounter that brought together a wide range of local and international dance artists, professionals and academics to discuss the theme along with colleagues from related fields like electronic arts, interaction design, gaming, and music.

Guests (in alphabetical order): Heine Avdal, Johannes Birringer, Ghislaine Boddington, David Hinton, Haraldur Karlsson, Tomi Knuutila, ROM3/Atle Barclay, Anthony Rowe, Amanda Steggell, Åsa Unander Scharin, Stefan Schwartz/Tanzhaus NRW, side by side.net, Tina Tarpgaard and Ole Christensen/Recoil Performance Group, are some of the people that presented ideas, projects and discussed issues of new media in dance education, interauthorship in interdisciplinary artistic processes, virtual dance, dramaturgy in multimedial performance, contemporary dance film, new technology as a research tool, dance online, curating dance and media projects, dance new media and the corporate world, open source technology, as well as dance, new media and the audience.

The encounter took place in the buildings of our partners Dance House Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO) and Oslo School of Architecture and design (AHO), institutions all in close proximity of each other, centrally located in Oslo.

CALL FOR PAPERS resulted in the publication "Program to Perform"
Write to ine@danseinfo.no if you are interested in receiving a printed copy of the publication.

ke∂ja and Dance Information Norway (DI) made a call for papers/essays on Dance, New Media and Technology encouraging artists, designers, scholars and technologists from all fields to answer the question: 'What is at stake in Dance and New Media in 2009?'
The call opened for taking a personal, creative or theoretical approach, and proposed texts were to be a maximum of 1000 words, in English. The submitted texts were reviewed by a jury of 3 Nordic scholars as well
as by editors Lise Amy Hansen (Oslo School of Architecture and design/AHO) and Ine Therese Berg (DI) who selected 3 essays to be published online and in a separate conference programme/catalogue (mentioned above).

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