Panel Statement

ch of new media work explores some interaction between the real and the virtual worlds. Some of this work may require the viewer to balance conflicting messages coming from different parts of the brain, and challenge the perception of what is real and what is virtual. Other works utilize virtual partners or dopplegangers, which both react to and create reactions in live performers, which may be dancers, actors or robotic structures. The panelists span the areas of dance performance, theatrical performance, robotic installation and interactive media installations, and will discuss how their work intersects these questions of technology and perception.

• Danny Bazo, University of California at Santa Barbera, USA
• Miwa Matreyek is an animator, director, designer and performer living and working in Los Angeles, USA. vimeo.com/matreyek
• Marco Pinter (USA) creates artwork and performances which fuse physical kinetic form with live visualizations. He is an inventor on over 70 patents, issued and pending, in the areas of live video technology, robotics, interactivity and telepresence. marcopinter.com
• Scott Snibbe, USA, is a media artist, filmmaker, and researcher in interactivity. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Modern Art
•  Prof. Lisa Wymore (USA) Associate Professor, Modern Dance Technique, Choreography, Dept of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley, USA, and Co-Artistic Director of Smith/Wymore Disappearing Acts with Sheldon B. Smith.  tdps.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/wymore