{"65296":{"#nid":"65296","#data":{"type":"event","title":"LCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series: Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series: Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETitle of Talk:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u201cIs There a There, There?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis talk investigates the spatial contexts of digital and networked performance practices. The focus is on practices that emerge from, reside, develop or unfold in a) virtual worlds or, b) hybrid locations that merge physical and digital spacetimes (such as Augmented Reality environments). In those cases, questions of space inevitably emerge: Where do such practices occur? Which are their stages, their environments, their natural habitats? How do those virtual or hybrid environments (re)configure, shape or affect the practices they host? Following Henri Lefebvre, the talk approaches space as \u2018social morphology\u2019 to examine the socio-political dimensions of those emergent stages.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBio:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X] is a cultural practitioner\n(curator, performer, producer, writer). Maria holds a PhD in Art and\nComputational Technologies from Goldsmiths Digital Studios, University   of London. She is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the School of Arts and New Media, University of Hull. \nPreviously, Maria taught at the University of London Colleges Goldsmiths, Birkbeck\nand Queen Mary, and Richmond the American International University, \nand worked as a Community Officer at The Albany in South London. She was co-\nfounder of the international media arts festival Medi@terra and co-\ndirector of Fournos Centre for Digital Culture (1996-2002, Athens, Greece). She\nhas performed with Diplous Eros Ensemble and director Syllas \nTzoumerkas (also in Athens, Greece). Maria is co-editor of the volume Interfaces of\nPerformance (Ashgate, 2009) and the forthcoming volume Intimacy Across \nVisceral and Digital Performance (Palgrave MacMillan), which follows the Intimacy festival and Symposium that Maria initiated and co-directed in London (2007). She\nhas lectured and published widely, including invited lectures at MIT\nand Yale University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series will host Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], who will present \u201cIs There a There, There?\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27418","created_gmt":"2011-03-31 16:47:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:42","author":"Lauren Langley","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-12T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-12T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-12T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-12 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-12 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-12 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"11804","name":"and Culture"},{"id":"3748","name":"communication"},{"id":"12609","name":"LCC\u0027s Distinguished Speaker Series: Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X]"},{"id":"3747","name":"literature"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarol Silvers\u0026nbsp; 404-894-9539\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}