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Sally Jane Norman is a cultural theorist and practitioner working at the
intersection between art and technology, with particular focus on
performing arts. She was born in Aotearoa (New Zealand), where she trained
in classical dance and music, and received a Master of Arts from Canterbury
University. She continued her education in France with a Doctorat de IIIe
cycle and a Doctorat d'Etat from the Institut d'Etudes Theatrales,
Universite de Paris III, participating in parallel in workshops directed by
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis and John Cage, and furthering
training in dance then martial arts training. She has published and
lectured widely on the relations between art and technology, while
upholding close links with artistic practice. Director of the 1993
International Symposium on New Images and Museology at the Louvre Museum,
of the "Traditional Techniques, New Technologies" workshop at the
International Institute of Puppetry (IIM), Charleville-Mezieres, in 1994,
and of the "Real Gestures, Virtual Environments" workshop jointly hosted by
the IIM and by the Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (ZKM
- erena ESPRIT project 25379) in 1998. Author of a report on
"Transdisciplinarity and Emerging Art Forms" commissioned by the French
Ministry of Culture (1997), and of the "Culture and New Media Technologies"
working paper for the Unesco Stockholm Cultural Conference (1998). She is
currently preparing a publication in French dealing with new images, and a
publication in English dealing with emerging performance forms and
technology. Collaborator on two European ESPRIT i3 projects via the ZKM; research and residency programme coordinator at the
International Institute of Puppetry;
co-organiser of TOUCH, a festival/ symposium/ exhibition to be held at
STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam, in December 1998;
artistic adviser to "Avignonumérique", a cultural event scheduled to take
place in Avignon in the year 2000.
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