In the second phase of the UKIYO project collaboration, the DAP-Lab team (Brunel University) will reside in Tokyo and be guests in residence at Mixed Reality Lab, Hiyoshi Campus, Keio University, directed by Professor Adrian Cheok. There the researchers from Japan and Europe will spend several days investigating new approaches to 3d virtual reality and virtual movement design, and exchanging knowledge and methodologies. In the second half of the UKIYO research encounter, Johannes Birringer and his DAP team will meet some of the leading Japanese choreographers and digital artists interested in hybrid performance choreography, and they will work together from 9th to 12th December 2009. An international symposium is hosted by Keio University during this time frame, with an evening program of presentations and films.

Keio-NUS CUTE Center website: www.mixedrealitylab.org & www.cutecenter.org

OPEN MEETING/SYMPOSIUM: December 9

In this open symposium, panel members will discuss the possibility of Networked Virtual Environment for choreography with mixed reality design. Leading Japanese artists and experimenters with interactive and virtual world design will discuss current projects and their aesthetic or scientific visions.

With the environment proposed by Johannes Birringer and DAP-Lab, participants of this research exchange project between Japan and the UK/Europe are producing the choreographic installation "Ukiyo" in 2009-2010. "Ukiyo" is a cross-cultural networked collaboration for the digital live arts of the next generation.

Date: 9th Dec
14:00 - 18 :00 Symposium / Presentation
19:00 – 21:30 Visual Presentation / Films

Keio University, Mita Campus,
Keio University, Global Security Research Institute, G-Sec Lab
East Building 6F and 7F:
http://www.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/about_access.php

A workshop-symposium on virtual performance aesthetics, choreography, telepresence design and transcultural communications

Panel:
Johannes Birringer and DAP Lab members (Brunel University), Michèle Danjoux, Oded Ben-Tal, Caroline Wilkins, Olu Taiwo and Paul V Smith
Prof. Adrian Cheok, Mixed Reality Lab, Keio-NUS CUTE Center (Keio University)
Yukihiko Yoshida
Yoko Higashino
Un Yamada
Satoko Yahagi
Maki Ueda
Fumi Hirota
Hironobu Oikawa and after scorpio, Michiko Aoki
Inarra Sarrinen and Ballet Pixelle

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UKIYO is supported by a PMi2/connect British Council research cooperation award for Knowledge Transfer, and by Keio-NUS CUTE Center.