New World Symphony to Host 13th Annual Network Performing Arts Production Workshop

The Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW), an annual conference dedicated to exploring and showcasing the latest technologies for long-distance artistic collaboration and education, will be presented at the New World Center on March 21-23, 2016. NPAPW was launched in 2003 by the New World Symphony and Internet2, a community of U.S. and international leaders in research, academia, industry and government who create and collaborate via innovate technologies, and is now in collaboration with European partner organization, GÉANT.

NPAPW welcomes artists, performing arts presenters, academic administrators, students and technologists to augment their artistic events and educational programs through the understanding and use of new technologies. The workshop seeks to accelerate research discovery, advance national and global education, and create artistic collaborations in the digital space that wouldn't otherwise be possible.

The 2016 workshop will comprise 12 sessions over three days featuring multiple demonstrations and performances exploring topics such as low-latency audio/visual streaming (LOLA), 4K streaming, long-distance networked collaborations, optimization of distance educational programs, opportunities for international partnerships, high-speed display devices, and simultaneous multi-location performances.

Demonstration and performance highlights will include a session in which a New World Symphony Trumpet Fellow performs with an organist in Prague, Czech Republic; a "telepresence" theatre work that examines the cultural ties formed by immigrants between their adopted home and their place of origin, which features actors in Miami joined by multiple remote actors in several countries; and an improvisatory "dance off" between dance troupes in Detroit and Miami, exploring two dominant urban dance styles - break dancing and the jit - with support from musicians of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and New World Symphony.

Presenters at the workshop include Ann Doyle, founder of Internet2's Cultural Initiatives; Sigita Jurkynaité, Project Management Assistant, GÉANT (Amsterdam); Chris Chafe, Director of the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University; Claudio Allocchio, Advanced Applications Coordinator of GARR, and LOLA project coordinator (Italy); Sven Ubik, Senior Researcher, CESNET (Czech Republic); Maria Isabel Gandia Carriedo, Head of Communications, CSUC (Barcelona); Justin Trieger, Director of Distance Learning and New Media, New World Symphony (Miami Beach); Jesper Andersen, Associate Professor and Head of Tonmeister Studies, Royal Danish Academy of Music (Denmark); Matt Parkin, Digital Content Production and Studio Services, Royal College of Music (London); Dan Nichols, Northern Illinois University School of Music; Ian Biscoe, artist, Falmouth University; Brigid Baker, Director, 6th Street Dance Studio; Jana Bitterova, choreographer; Greg Howe, Director of Distance Learning, Cleveland Institute of Music; Christianne Orto, Founding Director of Digital Learning Program, Manhattan School of Music; Faridah Noor Mohd Noor, Chair eCulture (APAN) and DCHH (MYREN), University of Malaysia.

The conference will be hosted in the state-of-the-art, Frank Gehry-designed campus of the New World Symphony - the New World Center. This year marks the 13th edition of the gathering, which has been jointly hosted by the New World Symphony (2003-2010, 2012, 2014, 2016); the Music Conservatory of Trieste, Italy (2009); the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique /Musique (IRCAM) (2010); The Liceu in Barcelona (2011); the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (2013), Austria; and the Royal College of Music, London (2015).

Registration for the workshop is $250 for Internet2 members or $325 for non-members, inclusive of meals, and can be obtained by visiting the New World Symphony website, Internet2's website, or clicking here.

Internet2 serves more than 90,000 community anchor institutions, 305 U.S. universities, 70 government agencies, 42 regional and state education networks, 84 leading corporations working with our community and more than 65 national research and education networking partners representing more than 100 countries. www.internet2.edu.

Additional information about the New World Symphony, America's Orchestral Academy, can be found online at www.NWS.edu.

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