Helen Varley Jamieson
Most Recent Affiliation / Department / Job Title:
- Digital Artist, _Director, Playwright, Performer, and Producer
Bio:
ISEA2011
Helen Varley Jamieson is a writer, theatre practitioner and digital artist from New Zealand. In 2008 she completed a Master of Arts (research) at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) investigating her practice of cyberformance – live performance on the internet – which she has been developing for over a decade. She is a founding member of the globally-dispersed cyberformance troupe Avatar Body Collision, and the project manager of UpStage, an open source web-based platform for cyberformance. Using UpStage, she has co-curated online festivals involving artists and audiences around the world. Helen is also the “web queen” of the Magdalena Project, an international network of women in contemporary theatre.
Website:
Current Location:
- NZ
Presentations:
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Title:
Reinventing theatre in cyberspace
Symposium:-
ISEA2009
| Type(s):
Title: Exercises in Remote Intimacy (or, “When Web-Casting is Cyberformance”)
Symposium:-
ISEA2011
| Type(s):
Title: Make-Shift
Symposium: