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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Digital culture is an intrinsic part of daily life. Digital technologies have changed the boundaries of where, when, how and even why live performance takes place. Networked, interactive, and sensory technologies have contributed to the development of new performance vocabularies, and these technologies have created new modes of production and have repositioned live performance as a multi-sited, digitally mediated art form. Digital environments can also be designed onstage, creating an opportunity to explore synergies between technology and space, to explore the continued co-evolution of humans and technology through creative, choreographic, and live performance practices.
The Office of the Arts is interested in the questions, challenges, conversations and opportunities createdby these intersections. The Office of the Arts is interested in the spaces in between. Between people and technology, between art and technology, between production and consumption, between creator and user, between us and them, between yesterday, today and tomorrow, between joy and sorrow, between empathy and apathy. We want to create a safe space for worlds to collide and to encourage experimentation, allow for failure and generate, support and sustain a culture across this campus that values creativity, questions and conversations as much as product and presentation. With this in mind we have invited a few world-class artists to join us in this discovery process. The artists joining us on 3/12 for the conversation will be;