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t2:Echo explores notions of co-location via Performance Telematics. Simply put, this is the use of computers in concert with telecommunication systems in performance. t2:Echo considers the impact on us as human beings of perceptible dislocations in our linear sense of space/time. The piece is part of the larger Touched Project funded by the Canada Council and the National Science and Engineering Research Council to develop video coding and processing for telepresence in the performing arts (2007-2010). A second work, Imprint, will preview at UBC's Museum of Anthropology on January 23rd 2010, and will also form part of SFU at Woodward's Inaugural Program at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre in mid-June 2010. Bio Background as an actor with Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop and as a dancer with Astor Johnson's Repertory Dance Theatre of Trinidad and Tobago; soloist with the Josè Limón Dance Company of New York; dancer, choreographer, theatre and performance lecturer in Germany and the UK; Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies, Henry Daniel is an Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Studies at SFU Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada and lead researcher for Transnet. He attended the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School in New York City as a dancer and has an MA in Dance Studies from City University The Laban Centre, London, and a Ph.D from the Bristol University Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television in the UK. His impressive track record on the international scene has led and continues to lead to advances in cultural knowledge by bringing to bear the perspectives and skills of the artist/scholar. Through his collaborations with researchers from the fields of science and engineering, he enables and contributes to technological innovation. His collaborations with software and equipment developers on devices Soundbeam are commercially developed and marketed by Elektrodome (Bristol, UK). Professors Ivan Bajic and Jie Liang (Engineering Science), and Professor Henry Daniel (Contemporary Arts), are recipients of a three-year Canada Council/NSERC New Media Initiative award (2007-2010) for their project - Video Coding and Processing for Improved Telepresence in the Performing Arts. |