Academic Engagements
Live Theatre Under The Dome: Expanding The Planetarium Paradigm.
International Planetarium Society Conference Berlin, Germany:
Role: Co-Presenter Date: 2024
Over the past decade, Fiske Planetarium has explored the integration of live theatre into the full dome immersive space of the planetarium. Productions have included »Vera Rubin: Bringing the Dark to Light« in a 2016 collaboration with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company and »Voyagers! A Musical Grand Tour of the Solar System« in a 2020 collaboration with Matheatre. In these cases, the full dome environment has been used to provide an interactive digitally immersive theatre set for live performers to act, sing, and dance. Since the premiere of Voyagers! in 2021, Matheatre has performed the production in other planetariums in the US and would like to bring the performance to international full dome theaters. Fiske is also currently working with local artists on the development of a live full dome performance titled »Cosmogenesis: The Story of Us«, which provides perspective on the origin and evolution of the cosmos through the thoughts, words, and actions of a group of university students trying to make sense of humanity. Panelists will speak to the development, production, and promotion of Voyagers! and Cosmogenesis. A unique question that will be explored involves marketing and promotion of live theatre within the non-traditional space of the planetarium.
National Center for Biological Sciences with the Bodystormers
Role: Documentarian Date: 2015
I was invited to participate at this 10-Day Residency at the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India as a participant, photographer, and documentarian for the Bodystormers of the University of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ithaca CollageTHATCamp: bridging Humanities, Arts and Technology
Role: Educator/Facilitator Date: 2014
I was invited to present a lesson from my curriculum titled; Useful Social Technologies from the Ancient Sea, as a workshop at the Ithaca College THATCamp: a Forum that bridges Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology. “Are there helpful lessons life has already won that humanity can apply as we further integrate our bridging of the “two cultures?” In this Play and Make Session, we will playfully enact two epic moments in life’s creative journey of evolution; photosynthesis and multicellularity. We will then collectively utilize this cellular wisdom as a metaphor and a map, as we harvest and document emergent gifts, ideas, understandings, skills, tools, collaborations waiting to arise from the interplay and ecotone of the “two cultures of arts and the humanities.”