A crowd views three dancers suspended from the ceiling performing movement in front of a large screen filled with 3D animated avatars.
  • DATES

    • MON 23 – WED 25 September, 10:00 – 16:00 AEST
  • Duration

    6 hours each day (3 days)
  • LOCATION

    • Arts House, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Booking Information

    HOW TO APPLY

    This Makeshift Workshop can support up to 12 participants. All participants are provided with a $100 daily honorarium and lunch.

    The EOI form asks:

    • Please provide some keywords to describe your work or your creative practice/interest
    • How would you describe your approach to collaboration?
    • If applicable, what technologies do you already use in your work or wish to use?
    • Please provide a link to your artist website / work /or social media

    You can respond to these questions in the format that works best for you – video, audio, Auslan or text.

    Applications due: Thursday 1 August 2024, 3pm AEST

  • Access Notes

    This workshop will involve hour long periods of listening, talking and watching video content, alongside more hands-on interactive moments experimenting with technologies. You are welcome to sit, stand or move around the space throughout the workshop. A range of supportive seating is available.

    Auslan and Audio Describer Guides on request – please include in your EOI.

    An Access Guide will be available prior to the workshop.

Hosted by Harrison Hall and Sam Mcgilp, this Makeshift workshop will share practical methodologies for collaboratively devising interdisciplinary new media art and performance work.

Makeshift Workshop: Pseudo Performance is for makers, performers and artists wanting to explore incorporating technology into their performances, or performance into their digital work.

Taking place over three days at Arts House, the workshop will include daily group led movement and somatic based warmups, and workshops sessions that examine different technologies that Harrison and Sam have integrated into their last five years of creations including:

  • Real-time, experimental and AI approaches to motion-capture
  • Live-video compositing and volumetric capture
  • Facial tracking
  • Multi-stream live video

The workshop will be an opportunity to:

  • Share practical tools for collaboratively making tech / artwork
  • Build peer connections between digital and performance artists
  • Start to make a community of practice in this hybrid field
  • Apply these thoughts and relationships to artists’ own work

In the final day the workshop will become a space for experimentation, providing participants the opportunity to explore how these technologies could be integrated into their own works and practices.

Acknowledgement of Country
Arts House, Campbelltown Arts Centre and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands we live and work on, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Dharawal, and Whadjuk Noongar peoples. We extend our respects to their Elders past and present. We extend this acknowledgment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander audiences and communities, and First Nations peoples globally.