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Teaching
Helen gives lectures, presentations and workshops about
UpStage, Avatar
Body Collision and her own artistic practice of cyberformance.
She regularly delivers remote presentations using UpStage and other
online communication tools, and often these presentations take the form
of performances, in collaboration with on-site and online colleagues.
Once apon a time, Helen has designed and taught a
four-month course in web site developement. These days she provides private
tuition in computer and internet skills to carefully selected clients.
Recent Lectures, Presentations and Workshops:
- Cyberformance workshop, Machine
Divas, Vienna, July 2009;
- UpStage workshop, UpGrade!
Munich, July 2009;
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UpStage workshop, Norsk Telemuseum, Oslo, June 2009;
- Performing
Presence: from the live to the simulated,
Exeter University, UK: remote presentation Are
You There? via UpStage, with Paula Crutchlow, March 2009,;
-
SCANZ Symposium, New Plymouth NZ: proximal and online
performative presention Enacting Collective Intelligence, using
UpStage, February 2009;
- Digital
and Interactive Media in Entertainment and the Arts (DIMEA), Athens
Greece: remote UpStage presentation and workshop, 10
September 2008;
- Conference on Intermediality, Theatricality, Performance, (Re)-presentation
and the New Media , 24-30 May 2007, Centre de Recherche sur L'Intermedialite
(CRI), Universite de Montreal, Canada - presented a paper on UpStage,
Cyberformance, and the Intermedial Audience (pending publication in
the conference papers);
- Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education, Rotorua December
2006;
- UpStage workshop, Whitireia Polytechnic, November 2006;
- UpStage workshop, Dunedin
Fringe Festival, October 2006;
- UpStage workshop (online), Eclectic
Tech Carnival, Romania, August 2006;
- Presentations & workshops, SCANZ,
July 2006;
- Workshop on e-marketing for the arts, Nelson Arts Marketing, June
2006;
- Presentation, Connecting Coasters Conference, Greymouth, March 2006;
- Workshop, Computing
Women's Congress, Waikato University, Feb 2006;
- Presentation, _emerge_,
Dunedin NZ, November 2005;
- UpStage Workshop, taught online from New Zealand for /etc,
Graz, Austria, July 2005;
- Lecture, Victoria University, Wellington NZ, August 2005;
- Presentation, re:mote,
Auckland NZ, March 2005;
- UpStage Workshop, taught online from New Zealand for a group of artists
at CAN, Manchester
UK; November 2004;
- Presentation, Trondheim
Matchmaking, Norway; October 2004;
- UpStage Workshop, /etc,
Belgrade, Serbia; July 2004
- Presentation, Porsgrunn
International Theatre Festival, June 2004
- UpStage Workshop, FAKI
Festival, Zagreb, Croatia; May 2004
- Cyberformance Workshop, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK (with
Karla Ptacek); February 2004
- Lecture, Aberystwyth University, Wales; February 2004
- Lecture, Goldsmiths University, London UK; February 2004
- Lecture, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; October 2003
- Cyberformance Workshop, Mesto
Zensk City of Women Contemporary Arts Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
October 2003
- UpStage Presentation, [09]03 Music Festival, Auckland, NZ (online);
October 2003
- Presentation, Plaything Symposium, Sydney, Australia (online); October
2003
- Cyberformance Workshop, INFANT Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia; June 2003
- Presentation, Magdalena
Australia, Brisbane, Australia, April 2003
- Presentation, Medi@terra
New Media Festival, Athens, Greece, December 2002
- Lecture, Aberystwyth University, Wales; November 2002
- Lecture, Manchester Metropolitan University, England; November 2002
- Presentation, MediaLab South Pacific, Wellington, New Zealand, October
2002
- Presentation, Arts International, New York City, USA; April 2002
- Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA; March 2002
- Lecture, New York University, New York, USA; March 2002
- Cyberformance Workshop, (e)vision, Wellington, New Zealand; February
2002
- Presentation, Magdalena
Australia, Brisbane, Australia; October 2001
- Presentation,
Odin Teatret,
Holstebro, Denmark; January 2001
Other teaching:
- WebWorks: a four-month full-time course in web development for unemployed
women, Outlook Resources, Wellington, 1999.
- Career Ys: a six-month programme of career-planning workshops and
mentoring for young women, YWCA, Wellington, 1996.
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