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ISPA's 55th Annual Conference
7 - 10 December 2002
New York City

Frances Cairncross will speak on the impact new technologies are having on society and organizations while drawing on her two recent books, the best selling Death of Distance 2.0 and The Company of the Future. Ms. Cairncross will also speculate on the changes technology will bring us in the next fifty years.

Ms. Cairncross is the Management Editor of The Economist. She chairs Britain’s Economic and Social Research Council and is a regular presenter of the BBC’s flagship Analysis programme.

Ann Hamilton a sculptor and installation artist, discuss her new work mercy. The conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to stay in Brooklyn that evening and enjoy this performance in its entirety.

*Contact BAM ticket services at +1-718-636-4100 (Mon-Sat. noon-6pm NY time)
Mention you will be attending the ISPA Conference as well as code TS1 to access the premium seats. Tickets are $45. for mercy and $50. for Macbeth. There will be a $4. per ticket handling fee.

Meet old and new friends and Johann Zietsman, ISPA’s new CEO

*Contact BAM ticket services at +1-718-636-4100 (Mon-Sat. noon-6pm NY time)
Mention you will be attending the ISPA Conference as well as code TS1 to access the premium seats. Tickets are $45. for mercy and $50. for Macbeth. There will be a $4. per ticket handling fee.

Steve Reich, recently referred to by the Village Voice as “America’s greatest living composer” and Beryl Korot, highly acclaimed and internationally exhibited video artist talk about their latest collaboration, Three Tales, a multimedia exploration of the impact and implications of the technological advances of the 20th Century. Steve and Beryl will provide a video demonstration of Three Tales and will discuss the work and its direction.

“Pitch Session” hosted by Robyn Archer, Artistic Director, Melbourne International Festival

Julie, a practicing entertainment attorney in Toronto, has frequently written and lectured on copyright issues in New York, Los Angeles, as well as Canada.
The rapid expansion of information on the internet and the growth of Napster and MP3.com have raised new moral and legal issues in regard to the protection of intellectual property. These issues include:

• Whose information is it?
• What legal protection should there be for record companies, artists, and publishers?
• How are the legal protections different in the U.S., Canada and Europe?

Artistic Director/Executive Producer of the Banff Centre for Media and Visual Arts, Sara is responsible for the artistic and professional development direction of Media and Visual Arts, New Media Institute workshops and think tanks, co-productions, artists’ residencies and partnerships all integrating television and video environments with visual arts.
Sara will give an overview of three key questions:

• Is there a place for profound performing arts practice in combination with new media?
• Is it possible to capture the spirit of performing arts on the web? She will provide some examples of engaging interactive web experiences that are performance based. Theorists in this field are struggling to discuss the body and our experiences of it as enhanced and mediated by technologies.
• Is there a language we need to know to understand new media and performance in combination?

A panel discussion with performance artists that are currently using or researching the use of technology as part of the creative process. Each panel member will demonstrate and discuss their own attitudes to the integration and use of technology for the stage. Specifically, the panel will explore why so many artists are now turning to technology to help them communicate their thoughts and feelings and whether technology enhances or detracts from artistic expression.

• Stewart Laing
  Eminent Scottish theatre director and designer and recipient of the prestigious Creative Scotland Award.
• Marianne Weems
  Founder of The Builders Association which creates projects exploring the interface between live performance and media.
• John Collins
  Sound Designer for the Wooster group and Executive and Co-Artistic Director of the Elevator Repair Service, a collaborative ensemble of performers, writers, directors and designers.
• Cathie Boyd
  Founder of Theatre Cryptic and member of Digicult, a group dedicated to developing digital shorts.

Can remote technology help us to reach remote communities? Will conventional live music, theatre and dance still be relevant to the e-mail generation? Can technology ever create a meaningful, communal experience over the internet to replace that experienced in the concert hall or theatre by audiences? Are there lessons to learn from broadcasting that can help us to develop how we use this new technology to disseminate the arts to a wider audience? Continuing a debate which begun at ISPA Lucerne Congress, this panel discussion will address how new technology, particularly buildings, is affecting the way we reach out and mediate with our audiences.

• Patrick Berge
  President of Sceno Plus, the creator of high tech art spaces dedicated to specific shows such as venues for Cirque du Soleil and Celine Dion These dramatic one-of-a-kind entertainment locations are both permanent and technology dependent. With impressive 3-D animations, Mr. Patrick Berge will illustrate how technology enhancement has transformed the performing arts forever.
• Patrick Mason
  Director of the Abby Theatre, Patrick Mason, will address the effects—good and bad—of broadcast/broadband technology of the live performing arts and their audiences.

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