Biography:

Sally Jane Norman is a cultural theorist and practitioner, holder of a Doctorat d'Etat from the Institut d'Etudes Theatrales, Universite de Paris III, who has published and lectured widely on art and technology relations, with a particular focus on the performing arts. Director of the 1993 Louvre International Symposium on New Images and Museology; organiser of the 1994 Traditional Techniques, New Technologies workshop at the International Institute of Puppetry (IIM), Charleville-Mezieres; co-organiser of the 1997 Touch festival at the Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, for STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music). Director of the 1998 Real Gestures, Virtual Environments performance workshop at the IIM and Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, and of the November 2000 Deeds & Gestures workshop at the Phenix Theatre, Valenciennes. Author of Transdisciplinarity and Emerging Art Forms for the French Ministry of Culture (1997) [http://www.culture.fr/mrt/bibliotheque/norman/norman.rtf], and of the Culture and New Media Technologies, working paper for the Unesco Stockholm Cultural Conference (1998) [http://www.unesco-sweden.org/Conference/Papers/Paper9.htm]. European Cultural Backbone member (http://www.e-c-b.net). Director General of the Ecole Superieure de l'Image (ESI, Angouleme and Poitiers http://www.eesati.fr); ESI representative on the EU Fifth Framework project RADICAL (DG XIII, Multimedia content and authoring tools, www.get-radical.net).


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