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DESCRIPTION:Please register in advance here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/re
 gister/WN_db9yCPLjSECH335jx-1LpQ\n\nPivot: Mixed Reality Live Performance 
 — Online!\n\nWhat happens to an transdisciplinary performance using VR a
 s a component that was designed for an installation space when it has to m
 ove online because of Covid-19? Collaborators at Berklee College of Music 
 feel like they’ve been vaulted into the future\, suddenly skipping sever
 al iterations between the in-person\, in-place project they were planning\
 , and prototypes for bringing live and recorded performance onto a virtual
  platform. Lori Landay discusses the goals\, challenges\, and potential so
 lutions of Virtual Dream Machine\; it is a story of pivots\, improvisation
 \, and creating presence however we can.\n\nLori Landay is an interdiscipl
 inary teacher\, scholar\, and artist whose creative and critical work expl
 ores themes of transformation in audiovisual cultural forms\, technology\,
  and perception. She is Professor of Visual Culture and New Media at Berkl
 ee College of Music in Boston\, MA\, where she teaches courses including 
 “Digital Narrative Theory and Practice\,” “Art and Virtual Reality\,
 ” “Dance +  Technology Lab\,” and “The Language of Film.”  Dr. L
 anday is the author of two books\, I Love Lucy (TV Milestones Series) and 
 Madcaps\, Screwballs\, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Cul
 ture\, as well as numerous publications on topics including Minecraft\, LE
 GO\, virtual subjectivity\, digital narrative\, silent film\, and gender a
 nd comedy.  Her new media art has been exhibited at Boston Science Fiction
  Film Festival\, Cyberfest (St. Petersburg\, Russia)\, On the Wall Dance F
 ilm Series (Berlin\, Germany)\, and Utopics Swiss Sculpture Exhibition (Bi
 el/Bienne\, Switzerland)\, and won awards such as Best of Show and People
 ’s Choice Awards\, New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference Art Show
 \; Best Machinimatography Award\, International Society for Technology in 
 Education (ISTE) Conference SIGVE Group\; and First Prize\, University of 
 Western Australia 3D Art Challenge. Her interactive new media art installa
 tion “ShadowLoop” was included in the AVATARS Exhibit at the Nave Gall
 ery in Somerville\, April-May 2019 during Open Studios.
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