The AusStage Symposium:
Transforming Research into Live Performance
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia
Information technology is revolutionising research into live performance. Computer networks, relational databases and digital archives are providing new platforms for collaborative e-research. How are these possibilities being realised by researchers in the performing arts?
This symposium brings together a key group of performing arts scholars whose work on the AusStage Project has transformed research into live performance in Australia.
The symposium will show how AusStage is operating as a platform for collaborative eResearch and explore questions regarding the impact of AusStage on performing arts research.
AusStage researchers will showcase new methods for visualising information on live performance and share knowledge about current practice in collaborative e-research.
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Thursday, 25 September, 11.00 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
Provisional Programme
10:30am |
Morning tea on arrival |
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11.00 am |
Welcome |
Professor Chris Marlin, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Flinders University
Lyn Leader-Elliot, Acting Director, Flinders Humanities Research Centre |
11:15am |
AusStage – an overview |
Adrian Kiernander (University of New England) |
11:30am |
Archiving performance ephemera: determining best practice in creating accessible and sustainable digitised performance documentation |
Mark Seton (Macquarie University & University of Sydney)
Russell Emerson (University of Sydney) |
12:00pm |
BlakStages: a work in progress |
Maryrose Casey (Monash University) |
12:30pm |
From bibliography to blogstage |
Helena Grehan (Murdoch University)
Neal Harvey (University of Queensland) |
1:00pm |
Lunch |
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2:00pm |
Spotlighting theatre history: introducing Theatre Aotearoa, the New Zealand theatre database |
Lisa Warrington (University of Otago) |
2:30pm |
Regional performance: mapping “the North” |
Paul Makeham (Queensland University of Technology) |
3:00pm |
Performance and theatre in a regional centre |
David Watt (University of Newcastle)
Gillian Arrighi (University of Newcastle) |
3:30pm |
Joining the dots – time-mapping A Doll’s House |
Julie Holledge (Flinders University) |
4:00pm |
Who works with whom? Visualising networks of artistic collaboration |
Jonathan Bollen (Flinders University)
Glen McGillivray (University of Western Sydney & University of Sydney) |
4:30pm |
Close |
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AusStage Partners meeting: The Symposium will be followed by an AusStage Partners meeting at Flinders University on Friday, 26 September, 10.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
About AusStage
AusStage is a platform for collaborative research in the performing arts which brings together university researchers, industry partners, government agencies and postgraduate students. Initiated in 2000 by a consortium of Australian universities and developed with over $1.5 million in funding from the Australian Research Council and partners, AusStage now comprises:
- an accessible relational database incorporating information on over 40,000 performance events, and associated venues, organisations, and artists;
- an integrated directory of resources with links to digitised text, image and video stored in libraries, archives and repositories; and
- a suite of innovative eResearch methodologies for mapping the creativity of live performance over time and space and visualising networks of collaboration between artists.
AusStage is at http://www.ausstage.edu.au
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