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Lecture as Craft

I love to think of the lecture as a performance genre. What an experience it could be when integrated with interesting applications of immersive new media! I wonder where professors utilizing innovative methods play these days…

PERFORMING SCIENCE

The Center for Media and Interactivity (ZMI) at Justus Liebig
University (JLU) Giessen offers the

Giessen prize for scholarly presentation & lecture performance

for the second time in 2011: Performing Science honors innovative forms
of knowledge presentation. In this context, evaluation will not only be
based on scholarly elocution but also on research-oriented lecture
performance or virtuoso media use. Inspired by the history of Justus
Liebig University, in 2011, i.e. the Year of Chemistry, Performing
Science will be about new forms of experimental lecturing.

The history of knowledge presentation is characterized by the tension
between scholarly communication and public spectacle. Experimental
lecturing is associated with the insight that the presentation of
knowledge interacts with research: Although experimental lecturing was
first criticized for not being scientific, it finally played a central
role in the development of modern experimental sciences. Through the
use of new media the forms of public knowledge presentation are
undergoing new changes today. For instance, the lecture performance has
emerged as a new format at the interface between art and science.
Recorded as a video and put on the Web, today’s scholarly presentations
take the shape of performances more than ever. At the same time, the
relationship between science and society is changing, too.

The Performing Science Award will be given to a scholar/artist for
outstanding achievements in scholarly presentation or lecture
performance. It is not simply the traditional experimental lecture
which is of interest here, but first and foremost the following types
of presentation:

- scholarly and artistic presentations which visualize research
processes
- presentations involving new experimental procedures, e.g. simulations
- presentations in which content and form enter an experimental
relationship which allows the audience to actually participate in the
presented research
- presentations which take an experimental and artistic approach to
using media and traditional forms of knowledge presentation

On 17th September 2011, a jury consisting of distinguished
representatives of the fields of science and art will determine the
award winners in the public finals.

- Value of the award: The prize money for the Performing Science Award
is 5,000 Euro for the first place winner, 3,000 Euro for the second
place winner, and 1,500 Euro for the third place winner
- Application deadline: 30th April 2011

For more information about the procedure and the application documents,
please see our websites www.performingscience.de or
www.zmi.uni-giessen.de.

Reference / Quellennachweis:
STIP: Performing Science Award 2011. In: H-ArtHist, Mar 2, 2011.
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