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Finding New Forms: Technology and Live Performance

October 3-5, 2025

Friday, 10/3 

5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Open gallery hours

7 p.m. Panel discussion: Digital Worlds: Virtual Reality and Live Performance (Free required)

Saturday, 10/4

5 p.m. – 7 p.m.  Open gallery hours

7 p.m. Panel Discussion: Storytelling Frontiers: AI and Beyond (Free registration required)

Wirtz Theater (Room 203)
Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for Performing and Media Arts, Chicago Campus
Abbott Hall
710 N. Lake Shore Drive

 

 

 

 

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Co-curated by Tanya Palmer and Seth Bockley  

Bringing together cutting-edge thinkers and makers of live theatrical performance with their counterparts in the world of immersive and interactive digital art, this Finding New Forms weekend of events is inspired by the interplay between new technology (VR / AR / XR / installation / ‘immersion’) and contemporary performance practices.  These weekend events aim to begin conversations about how to shake up, challenge and cross-pollinate the fields of art and performance.

Featured guests include Robin McNicholas from the London-based experiential arts collective Marshmallow Laser Feast; theatre director Annie Dorsen, who is working at the intersection of algorithmic art and live performances amongst others.