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1 Professor YACOV SHARIR, Short Biographical Overview Professor YACOV SHARIR, Short Biographical Overview ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Professor Yacov Sharir is a dancer, choreographer, and multimedia artists who pioneered the inclusion of new and interactive technologies in education and performance practice. He is a frequent keynote speaker at arts and technology conferences/symposia in the USA and around the world. Sharir currently researches and speaks of issues related to wearable computers/devices, technologically charged interactive systems, virtual reality, interactive video art/games, and the creation of computer animated cyber human performers. In addition to teaching dance, improvisation, and choreography at the University of Texas, Sharir teaches computer-aided art courses in virtual reality/cyberspace, and multi- disciplinary art and technology graduate courses. Sharir graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art in sculpture and ceramics and continued his studies in dance at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. He was a member of the Bat-Sheva Dance Company of Israel for ten years. Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance. He subsequently founded Sharir Dance Company, He has choreographed and created technologically mediated works for companies around the world, along with over thirty original creations for Sharir Dance Company. Under his direction, Sharir Dance Company has produced, presented, and collaborated with companies such as the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, and the Trisha Brown Dance Company among many others. He was awarded the 2006 Teaching Award, Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin. 2005 Career Research Excellence University Co-op Fine Arts Award in the Robert W. Hamilton Faculty Authors Award Competition, University of Texas at Austin. Awarded the Innovative Use of Instructional Technology “Virtual Reality & Cyberspace in the Arts”, the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Award and the 2012 E. W. Doty Faculty Fellow in the Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin. Sharir is a multiple recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship Awards, a Meet the Composer/Choreographer National Grant Award, and the University of Texas College of Fine Arts Student Council Teaching Excellence Award. He has served on the National Endowment for the Arts Choreographic Fellowship Dance Panel, the Texas Commission on the Arts Dance Panel, the Mid-America Dance On Tour Panel, and on several international Arts Councils in Israel, Spain, Portugal, Japan, China, Brazil, and France. Sharir is a contributor to numerous international publications, journals and books related to interdisciplinary/art & technology. On June 6, 2005, Sharir was inducted to the Austin Arts Hall of Fame 5406 Mount Bonnell Austin Texas 78731 Phone (512) 232 5333 e-mail: [email protected]. 1 YACOV SHARIR The University of Texas at Austin 5406 Mount Bonnell rd Department of Theatre and Dance Austin, TX 78731 Austin, TX 78712-1168 Office: (512) 232-5333 e-mail: [email protected] Fax: (512) 471-0824 Current Position: Professor, Dance and Technologically Mediated Art/Performance, Department of Theatre and Dance, The University of Texas at Austin. Comprehensive undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary/modern dance technique, Improvisation/composition, choreography, contact improvisation, computer animation 3D modeling, virtual reality, and cyberspace in the arts. Emphasis is placed on integration of studio work into production/performance and literacy. Technologically mediated studies are comprehensive and require in-depth reading and the ability to conceptualize work making. Appointed as supervisor to the newly established Art and Technology Program at the Center for International Studies Kibbutzim College of Education, Tel Aviv, Israel, August 11, 2010-present EDUCATION PhD Faculty of Technology Graduate School, University of Plymouth, UK MPhil Faculty of Technology Graduate School, University of Plymouth, UK BFA Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem Teaching Philosophy • My objective as an educator is to produce an informed thinking artist, an articulate, reflective member of the art community, whether in the role of practitioner, scholar, or patron. I emphasize dance/art and technology studies as a new and creative discipline that embraces the physical the technological and the intellectual. I think of it as an art form, as a way of knowing, as a means of personal, social, and cultural understanding. As a choreographer, dancer, teacher and interdisciplinary digital artist, my artistic focus and commitment are toward building a serious environment for the training of students as artists, and making a creative contribution to this new and emerging field. In addition, it is increasingly important to me to challenge and blur the boundaries between the way we use new technologies in the arts, the way we create work, the way we teach, and the way we learn. Strong emphasis is placed on application of dance and technology work outside the classroom; students are required to demonstrate their knowledge in scholarly research related to the field, the skill of performance and insights into production in performance context. 2 PUBLICATIONS Articles in Journals: Sharir, Yacov. “Corps Automatique Corps Résistant [Electric Mask].” Danse et Nouvelles Technologies 40-41(1999): 160-168. Sharir, Yacov. “World Dance & Technology.” Tanz: Zeitschrift für Ballett, Tanz und Performance 8-9 (1997): 28-29. Sharir, Yacov. “Choreography in Virtual Reality.” Israel Dance Quarterly 7 (1995): 6-8. Gromala, Diane and Yacov Sharir. “Danser Avec le Derviche Virtuel: Les Corps Virtuels.” Inter Art Actuel: Arts et Électroniques 63 (1995) 10-13. Chapters in Books: Sharir, Yacov. “Future Body as it is Occupying the Physical and the Virtual World in a Performative Set-up.” In Post Me_New ID: The Post Human Condition of Modern Europeans, 12-23. Maribor: Kulturno izobrazevalno drusto KILBA/Association for Culture and Education KILBA, 2009. Sharir, Yacov. “Learning through the Re-embodiment of the Digital Self.” In Educating Artists in a Digital Age: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture, edited by Mel Alexenberg, 217-229. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Sharir, Yacov. “Seven Images.” In Digital Performance, A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation, edited by Steven Dixon, 266, 267, 659, 16, 367-8, 376-8, 435, 662, 434-5. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2007. Sharir, Yacov. “Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies, an Installation in Virtual Environments.” In Synopsis 2 – Theologies, 64-66. Athens, Greece: National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003. Sharir, Yacov. “Corpo Automatico, Corpo Resistente [Dance and Digital Technologies].” In Body Automatic Body Resistance, edited by Armando Menicacci and Emanuele Quinz, 225-230. Venice, Italy: Marsilio Editori, 2001. Sharir, Yacov. “Dancing with the Virtual Dervish: Virtual Bodies.” In Immersed in Technology Art and Virtual Environments, edited by Mary Ann Moser, 281-285. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996. 3 Papers in Conference Proceedings: Barbara Lane and Yacov Sharir. “Twining: Demonstration in Wearable Computing.” Collaborative paper published in the conference proceedings for the Planetary Collegium’s Reviewing the Future, Montreal, Canada, April 19-22, 2007. Sharir, Yacov. “Resolving Order in Chaos: Navigation in Complex Data Sets.” Abstract published in the conference proceedings for Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, University of Arizona, April 5, 2006. Barbara Lane and Yacov Sharir. “Twining: Demonstration in Wearable Computing.” Collaborative paper published in the conference proceedings for the SIGraDI Conference, Lima, Peru, November 21-23, 2005. Barbara Lane and Yacov Sharir. “Twining: A Demonstration in Wearable Computing.” collaborative paper published in the conference proceedings for Creativity & Cognition, April, 12-15, 2005, 267-268. New York: The Association for Computing Machinery. Sharir, Yacov. “Transformation of Perception Place and Performance.” Paper published in the conference proceedings for the University of Plymouth School of Computing’s Altered States Conference, UK, July 22-23, 2005. Williams, Holly, Kent DeSpain, and Yacov Sharir. “A Moving Landscape: Dance Pedagogy for the 21st Century Conference.” Collaboratively published paper for the National Dance Association’s Wires and Bodies, Pedagogy, Technology, and the Dance Classroom, Dallas Texas, January 16-19, 2004. Sharir, Yacov. “How Contemporary Dance Performance/Image is Affected with the Use of Alternative Projection Surfaces/Means?” Abstracts in the Proceedings of the 6th International Research Conference Consciousness Reframed – Qi and Complexity, Beijing, China, November 24-27, 2004. 115-116. Sharir, Yacov. “The Function of Art in Restructuring Experience in Virtual Environments.” Paper published in the proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Hybrid Reality Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), Montreal, Canada, October 15-17, 2003. Montreal: VSMM and sDmt Center, 2003. Sharir, Yacov. “The Absent Body.” Paper published in the proceedings of the 5th International CAiiA-STAR Research Conference and Workshop Consciousness Reframed, University of Wales and the University of Plymouth, UK, July 2-8, 2003. Sharir, Yacov. “Intelligent
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