Research-creation lecture & workshop: Probing space, probing the human - Sally Jane NORMAN

Sally Jane Norman's talk will be in two parts, with a lecture (in English) followed by a workshop.

The lecture, entitled Performance Technologies their Ghosts and their Progeny, will address the following issues:

•     The interaction and joint formation of tools and human behavior,
•     The development of technology for artistic purposes: some historical and contemporary examples,
•     Artistic initiatives aimed at producing "deep diversity", to counter the normative powers of technology.

Examples will be drawn mainly from music / the world of sound. The presentation will be in English, with plenty of scope for questions/discussions/clarifications in French.

Director of the New Zealand School of Music - Te Kōkī, at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, Sally Jane NORMAN holds dual French and New Zealand nationality. Under the direction of Bernard Dort, then Denis Bablet, she obtained a Doctorat de 3^e cycle and then a Doctorat d'Etat at the Institut d'études théâtrales, Paris III. Sally Jane has worked in various European institutions, including the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe), the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (Amsterdam), and the Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l'Image, which she directed in Angoulême and Poitiers. She then founded Culture Lab at the University of Newcastle (UK) and the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts at the University of Sussex, where she was one of the founders of the Sussex Humanities Lab, returning to New Zealand in 2017 to direct the School of Music. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the body, the environment, and the impact of technological change on artistic expression.

https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/sallyjane.norman