NEUROLIVE is an interdisciplinary research collaboration that brings artists, scientists and audiences together to study what makes live experiences special.

This three-day online symposium launches NEUROLIVE by opening up different ways of conceptualising, measuring and practicing liveness. An invited group of humanities scholars, cognitive scientists and performing artists will offer their individual perspectives on liveness, hosted by the interdisciplinary NEUROLIVE research team.

Each day gathers together its contributors, hosts and attendees in an open discussion to bring different disciplinary perspectives into dialogue and help inform the research project’s five-year trajectory.

This symposium will take place on Zoom Webinar. Please register to receive further information.

Programme

Day 1. Wed 24 March 2021

10:45 am – 11 am | Welcome | Dr Guido Orgs and Matthias Sperling

11 am – 12 pm | Conceptualising Liveness | Dr Evelyn Wan

• “When technology knows you better than you do: Biopower and the Politics of Standardisation and Measurement”

12 pm – 12:15 pm | 15 minutes Coffee break

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Measuring Liveness | Dr Jamie A. Ward, Hayley Hung and Kai Kunze

• Measuring Liveness with Dr Jamie A. Ward

• “Measuring Social Behaviour in the Wild: Towards the Study of Authentic and Spontaneous Social Interactions at Fine Time Scales” by Dr Hayley Hung

• "Augmenting Humans" by Prof Kai Kunze

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm | 1 hour Lunch Break

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm | Practicing Liveness | Performance Maker Claire Cunningham

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | 15 minutes Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Roundtable Open Discussion | All contributors

Day 2. Thurs 25 March 2021

10:45 am – 11 am | Welcome | Dr Guido Orgs and Matthias Sperling

11 am – 12 pm | Conceptualising Liveness | Prof Matthew Reason

• “Relational Liveness”

12 pm – 12:15 pm | 15 minutes Coffee break

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Measuring Liveness | Prof Daniel C. Richardson and Prof Nomura Ryota

• Measuring Liveness with Prof Daniel C. Richardson
• “Recurrence-based reconstruction of performer's input with using audience's blink responses” by Dr Ryota Nomura

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm | 1 hour Lunch Break

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm | Practicing Liveness | Artists Jo Fong & Anushiye Yarnell

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | 15 minutes Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Roundtable Open Discussion | All contributors and guest Prof Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, director of the music department at the Max Planck institute for Empirical Aesthetics

Day 3. Fri 26 March 2021

10:45 am – 11 am | Welcome | Dr Guido Orgs and Matthias Sperling

11 am – 12 pm | Conceptualising Liveness | Dr Anna Pakes in conversation with Guido Orgs & Matthias Sperling

12 pm – 12:15 pm | 15 minutes Coffee break

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm | Measuring Liveness | Haeeun Lee, Dr Guido Orgs and Dr Diego Vidaurre

• Mobile EEG Demonstration with Haeeun Lee and Dr Guido Orgs
• “Ways of understanding the big brain network” by Dr Diego Vidaurre

1:15 pm – 2:15 pm | 1 hour Lunch Break

2:15 pm – 3:15 pm | Practicing Liveness | Choreographer Seke Chimutengwende and collaborators

• Open Rehearsal: Seke has invited the 5 dancers (Adrienne Ming, Alethia Antonia, Natifah White, Rose Sall Sao, Rhys Dennis) collaborating with him on new work to join him in this session for an open rehearsal.

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm | 15 minutes Coffee Break

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Roundtable Open Discussion | All contributors

We welcome you to join us for all or any part of the three-day programme that you choose. The event will be live captioned. All timings given in the schedule are GMT.

NEUROLIVE has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 864420 - Neurolive). The project is led by Goldsmiths University of London in partnership with Siobhan Davies Studios, with additional support from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics.

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