Bodies of Knowledge

Susana Panades Diaz
Gilles Jobin is a choreographer living and working in Geneva whose productions have been performed all over the world since 1995. Based in London from 1997 to 2004 he created the groundbreaking pieces A+B=X (1997), Braindance (1999), The Moebius Strip (2001) and Under Construction (2002), relying on choreographic language outside of established aesthetic frameworks that included forays into visual arts and live art. In 2003 he created TWO-THOUSAND-AND-THREE for the 22 dancers of the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève for a performance that “transcends both classical and contemporary dance” (Libération). Since 1995 Cie Gilles Jobin has created more than 20 choreographic projects, which have become references on the world stage. In 2015 Gilles Jobin received the Swiss Grand Award for Dance by the Swiss Office of Culture. With the 3D film WOMB in 2016, the company started investigating digital possibilities for contemporary dance within the volume of the frame. Discovering the power of motion capture, the company created VR_I, a groundbreaking dance piece in immersive virtual reality that premiered at the 2017 FNC – Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal and won both the Innovation and People’s Choice awards for Most Innovative Work for New Platforms. In 2018 the work featured at the Sundance Film Festival and at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. A world tour followed in more than 50 cities and 20 countries in America, Asia and Europe, making it the most toured VR location-based installation in the world. The company created Dance Trail (AR) at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and in 2020, La Comédie Virtuelle – live show, a multiuser live performance selected in official competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival which won the Quebec XR industry award Numix 2021.

Bodies of Knowledge

Annette Mees

Annette Mees

Director and dramaturg in Theatre, Immersive and XR

Ark 1

ARK1

Colette Sadler

Friday 15th Nov, 8pm

Asha Easton

Innovate UK Immersive Tech Network Lead & co-founder of XR Diversity Initiative

Aya

Aya

Saturday 16th Nov
from 9.30pm

Ben Turnbull

Ben Turnbull

Senior Lecturer in Performance Technology and Design at London College of Fashion

Boyd Branch

Theatre technologist and Research Fellow at C-DaRE

Colin Davis

Colin Davis

Head of Production, Immersive at Nexus Studios

Cosmogony

Cosmogony

Cie Gilles Jobin

Friday 15th Nov, 7pm

David Gochfeld

David Gochfeld

XR creator and Performance Lab Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

Dan Strutt

Dr Dan Strutt

Senior Lecturer, Department for Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University

EGO

EGO

Klaus Obermaier

Fiona Zisch

Programme Director, Bartlett School of Architecture

Jemma Channing

Senior Manager for Creative Health and Change at Arts Council England

Joel Lewis

Interactive Creative Director and Artist, Universal Everything, UAL Creative Computing Institute

Kadine James

Director of Innovation at Artificial Rome & founder of The Immersive Kind

Kevin Laibson

Director, producer, and educator, Senior Experience Director at Agile Lens

Kincaid

Kincaid

Sunday 17th Nov
from 9.30pm

Maggie Bain

Actor, movement director, and immersive XR practitioner

Otmo Live

Otmo Live

Alexander Whitley Dance Company

Saturday 16th Nov, 7pm & 8pm

Ravin Raori

Ravin Raori

Lecturer in Narrative Media at London College of Communication

Rob Morgan

Writer, experience designer, digital dramaturge

Ruth Gibson

Visual artist, choreographer and founder of Gibson Martelli

Ruth

Ruth Mariner

Creative director and narrative designer in XR

Soulpaint

Soul Paint

Sarah Ticho (Hatsumi, UK) and Niki Smit (Monobanda, Netherlands)

Schrauth

Ulrich Schrauth

Immersive Programme Lead for the British Film Institute (BFI) and the London Film Festival

Vast Body

Vast Body

Vincent Morisset and Caroline Robert

Yazan Nasrallah

Yazan Nasrallah

Architect, visual effects artist, and PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Festival Programme

Digital Bodies

Digital Bodies

Futures in Motion

Futures in Motion

Performing Technology

Performing Technology

Hybrid Lab

Hybrid Lab

Bodies of Knowledge

Bodies of Knowledge