As we are in PREMIERE going through the third and final year of the project we want to create a space for discussion and joint reflection among professionals of the performing arts navigating the digital field.
In the online discussion webinars, we will approach the practical and theoretical aspects of creating with digital media, encountering and interacting in virtual spaces, as well as retrieving and interpreting works from audiovisual archives.
It is also an opportunity for us to connect with our interlocutors, those of you who find interest in the project, to exchange ideas, and to create a network.
We aim to foreground artistic intelligence in the development of emerging technologies.
What is relevant or urgent? What is desired? Where do we need to focus our efforts? What are the social, ethical and practical scope and which are the limitations of AI and XR technologies?
During the webinar discussion, we wish to shape a framework of thinking through these questions, placing at the centre the semantic sensibility and constant social inquiries of the arts. Sharing and addressing the questions that have emerged during the project —and beyond— in these years of the digital era, is part of an effort to define the position from which we speak and work.
Register & join us in the online discussions in April 2025
The three sessions will be held online, free of charge, and will run for approximately 1.5 hours. Professionals from various fields of the performing arts who are involved in the project will introduce Premiere’s work on the topic and moderate the discussion with participants.
Discussion webinar I
Performance and archive: curatorship and mediation in the digital era
Friday. April 4 2025
12:00 CET
Moderated by Ezequiel Santos (Vice President, Forum Dança; Lecturer, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon) and Gonçalo Amorim (Artistic Director, FITEI – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica).
Featured guest: Hélia Marçal (Lecturer in History of Art, Materials, and Technology, University College London).
Discussion webinar II
Hybrid dance and theatre co-creation, knowledge transmission and rehearsal in XR spaces
Friday. April 10 2025
14:00 CET
Moderated by Suzan Tunca (Head of ICK Academy, ICK Dans Amsterdam) and Depy Panga (Researcher, Argo Theatre).
Discussion webinar III
mēkhanḗ: Exploring Human-Machine relationship in the performing arts
Friday. April 11 2025
16:00 CET
Moderated by Erik Lint (Head of IDlab, Academy of Theatre and Dance, Amsterdam University) and Pablo Palacio (artist, researcher, software developer, composer, Instituto Stocos)