tagged: ends of audience

we’re organising a workshop on live audiences at queen mary. it’s conceived around opening conversations across disciplines. here’s the call –

People in audiences act: they talk, clap, heckle, sigh, inhale, exhale, rustle, twitch, tweet, dance, flirt, laugh, whisper, shuffle, cough… in doing so, they interact. There is a structure and dynamic to these responses which is central to the experience of being in a live audience. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and professionals with interests in performance, interaction and technology who are working on understanding, instrumenting or experimenting with these dynamics, and the shifting ends of audience that they reveal.

We invite proposals for oral presentations, live demonstrations, installations and performance experiments that explore the nature of interaction in audiences. We especially welcome interventions, participatory formats and creative approaches to convening workshop sessions. Topics include but are not restricted to:

• the dynamics of collective and individual experiences of performance,
• the communicative organisation of audience-audience interaction,
• non-verbal interaction and emotional contagion,
• remote and co-present audience interactions,
• the phenomenology of audience interaction,
• changing historical and cultural understanding of the audience,
• technologies and methods for sensing audience dynamics,
• technologies and methods for enhancing and manipulating audience engagement.

http://qmedia.qmul.ac.uk/audience

diary | 17 dec 2011 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience | downloads: Ends of Audience Flyer.pdf

hot off the digital anvil: the programme for ends of audience.

Pat Healey, Martin Welton, Michael Schober and Lois Weaver – Introduction

Laurence Payot – Performing Audiences: Experiments in Real Time

Paul Tennent, Sarah Martindale, Stuart Reeves, Joe Marshall, Brendan Walker, Steve Benford – Exposing your still beating heart: introducing biodata to the audience experience

Coffee break

Colombine Gardair, Patrick G.T. Healey, Martin Welton – Teaching Audience Responses: an Ethnography of Street Performance.

Judy Batalion – The Live Comedy Audience

Christian Heath & Paul Luff Audience, Participation and the Legitimacy of Events: Auctions of Fine Art and Antiques

Lunch

Keynote – Christoph Bregler – The Eye of the Crowd: Capturing, Sourcing, and Playing with Audiences.

Laurissa Tokarchuk, Matthew Purver, Stuart Battersby – Using social data to understand live festival audiences

Eirini Nedelkopoulou – The Phenomenology of Audience Interaction in Mixed-­Media Performance

Coffee break

Mariza Dima – MOBILE Stories: Exploring audience engagement through interactive mobile storytelling

Aneta Mancewicz, Joshua Edelman – Watching the Watching of Shakespeare

Short break

Q&A Debrief

Drink Reception & Dinner –
including Elbows on the Table by Valeria Graziano & Valentina Desideri and short talk by Barry Ife

Fair –
Angela Fernandez Orviz – New Models for Audience Engagement
Jon Armstrong – Towards a Psychological Theatre – Magic, Suggestion and The Audience’s Experience of Performance
Rachel Gomme – Mouth to Mouth
Ria Hartley – Play/Pause/Reflect/Submit
Kavin Preethi Narasimhan and Arash Eshghi – Watch it, we’re around

Keynote – Louise Blackwell & Kate McGrath – Producing fresh work for adventurous people.

John Sloboda and Helena Gaunt – Understanding audiences: helping creative artists to obtain richer information from their audiences.

Joslin McKinney – Empathy and Exchange: Audience Experience of Scenography

Johanna Linsley and Jan Mertens – The Library of Expectations

Coffee Break and Q&A session

Kim Skjoldager-Nielsen – Risky Interaction – Staged identity in SIGNA’s Salò

Anna Wilson – Ontroerend Goed’s The Audience

Philip Watkinson – A Mirror Staging: A Lacanian performance analysis of Romeo Castellucci’s On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God and its impact on the audience.

David Wiles – Picturing the historical audience

Lunch

Atau Tanaka – Music One Participates In

Isaac Schankler, Alexandre François and Elaine Chew – Mimi4x and Game Pieces: Creating an Audience of Performers

Coffee Break

Terri Power – Shakespeare’s Audiences

Graham White – Philosophical Theatres: From Descartes to Phenomenology

Orion Maxted – BANANA

Q&A Debrief

Short Break

Keynote – Nic Ridout – The Ends of Ends of Audience

Closing and Goodbyes

diary | 29 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience | downloads: Ends of Audience Programme.pdf

the workshop kicks off. of course i recreated the flyer design with a live camera feed of the audience. here, we have the ‘excite-o-matic’ of ‘exposing your still beating heart: introducing biodata to the audience experience’, roughly this paper.

diary | 30 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience

we made a ‘q&a format for a workshop where ideas should be on the move’. here we have colombine reading questions and responses to her talk ‘teaching audience responses: an ethnography of street performance’. and, crucially, adding responses of her own, building a conversation and noting people to follow up with.

diary | 30 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience

martin welton drawing threads through the day and hosting an open discussion prompted by the q&a post-its.

diary | 30 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience

drinks reception, dinner: of course. but also a fair, with performances, demos, and allsorts.

diary | 30 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience

nic ridout summing up the conference with extemporaneous flair.

diary | 31 may 2012 | tagged: research · qmat · ends of audience