Johannes Birringer
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Johannes Birringer is an independent media choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia ensemble that has collaborated on various site-specific and cross-cultural performance and installation projects since 1993. After directing international workshops on dance and technology in Europe, he created the new dance and technology program at The Ohio State University (1999-2003). While teaching at OSU he founded and conducted the "Environments Laboratory."
In 2003 he founded the Interaktionslabor Göttelborn, Germany, a summer laboratory located in a former coal mine and focused on research in new media performance and interactive systems. He is also a Principal Research Fellow in Live Art at the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, where he directs a telematic dance lab (LATela).
He has created numerous stage works, video and film installations, and interactive and online collaborative performance work since 1986. He has published widely on the visual and performing arts, and his books include Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism (1991), Media and Performance: along the border (1998), and Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture (2000). He recently completed a new book on Dance Technologies: Digital Performance in the 21st Century.
See Also
Further Reading
http://bahai-library.org/bafa/birringer.htm
http://www.music.mcgill.ca/musictech/ISIDM/
External links
http://www.aliennationcompany.com