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 opportunity to explore how these technologies could be integrated into their own works and practices.  

 You will come away with: 

• Conceptual and methodological frameworks for using tech in performance 
• Insight into best-practice working methods in each other’s fields 
• Broad understanding of how to use the tech systems that we built for recent work  
• New peer relationships 

Who it is for 

The workshop welcomes artists with practices in any mode of contemporary performance, as well as any mode of new media art, who are interested in collaborating to make works that would not be possible alone, to experiment and contribute to a community of shared knowledge. 

While no specific prior technical or performance skills are necessary, this workshop is specifically geared towards those with an interest in collaboration and contemporary multi-disciplinary practice between performance and technology. 

How to apply 

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

Lead Makeshift artists determine the application and selection process for participating artists. 

The online 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. 

Deadline for applications: Thu 1 August, 3pm AEST 

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