Sophia Danced programme - Irish World Academy of Music and

And Sophia Danced
A Celebration of Arts Research
PRESENTED BY
BURREN COLLEGE OF ART
HUSTON SCHOOL OF FILM
& DIGITAL MEDIA, NUIG
IRISH WORLD ACADEMY
@ IRISH WORLD ACADEMY
OF MUSIC AND DANCE
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK
WEDNESDAY 19 NOVEMBER
THURSDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2014
Wednesday 19 November
Irish World Academy Foyer
5.00pm 5.45pm 6.00pm 7.15pm Registration and Reception
Welcome from Professor Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin
Silent movie showing from the O’Kalem Collection including
The Lad from Old Ireland (1910) and His Mother (1912)
with live piano accompaniment from Dr. Cyprian Love OSB.
Dinner @ the Pavilion
Thursday 20 November
The Tower Theatre
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9.30am -11am
Session 1: Curated by Irish World Academy
Chair: Dr. Helen Phelan
Speakers:
Dr. Mary Nunan (Irish World Academy)
Dr. Ferenc Szucs (Irish World Academy)
Dr. Jeffrey Weeter (University College, Cork)
11am Coffee break (Academy Foyer)
Short presentations on WATERMARK by curator
Dr. Niamh Nic Ghabhann (Course Director, MA Festive Arts,
Irish World Academy) and TERRAINSKIN a choreography for camera by Mairead Vaughan (Doctoral candidate, Irish World Academy).
11.30am - 1pm Session 2: Curated by Burren College of Art
Chair: Conor Mc Grady (Burren College of Art)
Speakers:
Noel Fitzpatrick (GradCAM)
Professor Timothy Emlyn Jones (Burren College of Art)
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1pm Lunch break (Academy Foyer)
Lunchtime concert: Contemporary Dance Performance
This performance features a number of original ensemble
choreographies selected from those created specifically for students of the MA Contemporary Dance Performance by guest choreographers. We are delighted to announce that the programme will include a new work by Yoshiko Chuma (USA). In addition, the programme will feature solo choreographies created by the students themselves.
2pm - 3.30pm Session 3: Curated by Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUIG
Chair: Rod Stoneman
Speakers:
Matthew Causey (Trinity College, Dublin)
Jonathan Murray (Edinburgh College of Art)
3.30pm
Coffee break (Academy Foyer)
4pm - 5.30pm
Session 4: Evaluating Arts Practice Research
Chair: Sarah Moore (Chair of Ireland’s National Forum
for Teaching and Learning)
Panel contributions from:
Burren College of Art
Huston School of Film & Digital Media (NUI Galway)
Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Responses from:
Eucharia Meehan: Director, Irish Research Council
Mary Shire: Vice President, Research, University of Limerick
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Co-ordinating Group
Professor Timothy Emlyn Jones (Dean of Possibilities, Burren College of Art)
Conor McGrady (Dean of Academic Affairs, Burren College of Art)
Professor Mícheál O Súilleabháin (Chair of Music, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance)
Dr. Helen Phelan (Programme Director, PhD Arts Practice, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance)
Dr. Cyprian Love
Dr. Eucharia Meehan
Dr. Ferenc Szűcs
Dr. Jeffrey Weeter
Dr. Rod Stoneman (Director, Huston School of Film & Digitial Media)
SPEAKERS
Dr. Cyprian Love, OBS
Dr. Ferenc Szűcs, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Cyprian Love is monk of Glenstal Abbey, Co Limerick. He studied the piano at the Royal College of
Music, London. He plays the organ in Glenstal Abbey Church and has a particular interest in musical
improvisation. He has made several CDs on the Abbey organ, including some of improvisation and
he has obtained a PhD in the area of musical improvisation from the University of Hull, England. He also teaches theology at Mary Im-maculate College, University of Limerick.
Dr Ferenc Szűcs is Senior Lecturer at the University of Limerick, Course Director of the Master’s
programme in Classical String Performance working in association with the Irish Chamber Orchestra
at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. As a professional cellist he performed in over 50
countries and has associations with numerous orchestras, ensembles and insti-tutes worldwide.
He appeared as a soloist in major concert halls and given master classes in Hungary, England, Ireland,
Italy, Turkey, China and the USA.
Dr. Eucharia Meehan, Irish Research Council
Dr. Eucharia Meehan is the Director of the Irish Research Council. The mission of the Council is
to ‘enable a creative and vibrant research community in Ireland’. The Council has been given a
particular mandate to focus on early stage career researchers and to cultivate expertise across all
disciplines, from Arts to Zoology, so as to support the diverse needs of the economy and society.
The Council also has a policy advisory role on research and postgraduate education nationally and
internationally.
Prior to her role at the Irish Research Council, Eucharia was Head of Research and Innovation (policy
and investment) at the Higher Education Authority (HEA). This latter role encompassed Director of
the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI) which invested €1.2bn of public and
private funds to develop strategic research infrastructure and capacity.
Prior to joining the HEA in 2002, Eucharia was a member of the senior management team and Head
of Programme Management at Elan Biotechnology Research (EBR). In this role she had responsibility
for sites and joint ventures in Ireland, Israel and the USA. Eucharia holds a PhD in Pharmacology
(Neuro-pharmacology) from NUIG, in addition to a number of postgraduate management,
accounting and finance qualifications from TCD and the ACCA. She was recently elected a member
of the board of Science Europe, the association of European Re-search Funding Organisations (RFOs)
and Research Performing Organisations (RPOs).
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He played as principal cellist with many orchestras based in London including the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, New Queens Hall Orchestra, Oxford Orchestra of Camera,
Philharmonia Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
He made radio and television broadcasts for BBC, RTE, MRT and published commercial recordings on
ASV, BMG, Hyperion, Arte Nova, Future Classics and RTE Lyric fm labels. He presented on seminars
and symposiums in Ireland, UK, Hungary, Italy, Turkey and USA. His research is focusing on creative
art-making processes and knowledge transfer in contemporary musical performance practice.
Dr. Jeffrey Weeter, University College Cork
Jeffrey Weeter composes music, designs real-time multimedia instruments, plays the drums and
per-forms musically with technology. He is co-director of the Cork Audio Visual Ensemble which
performed “The Box” at the 2014 International Computer Music/Sound and Music Computing
Conference in Athens, Greece. His work was also recently performed at the !f Istanbul AFM
International Inde-pendent Film Festival and the Cork Film Festival. During 2011 and again in 2012,
collaborations with electronic musician Kate Simko toured the world, touching every continent.
He completed his Doctor-ate in Music Composition from Northwestern University, served five years
as an audio engineer for the Emmy winning “Oprah Winfrey Show”, Harpo Studios, Chicago and is
currently a Lecturer in Music Composition at University College Cork, Ireland.
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Dr. Jonathan Murray
Dr. Mary Nunan
Dr. Mary Shire
Dr Mathew Causey
SPEAKERS
Dr. Jonathan Murray, Edinburgh College of Art
Dr. Mary Shire, University of Limerick
Jonathan Murray is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art. Amongst
other publications, he is the author of Discomfort and Joy: the Cinema of Bill Forsyth (Peter Lang,
2011) and The New Scottish Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2014). He is the co-editor of Animation Journal and
a Contributing Writer on the permanent staff of Cineaste magazine.
Dr Mary Shire holds the position of Vice President for Research at the University of Limerick since
2011 and is responsible for the leadership, development and delivery of the University’s research
pol-icy, strategy and support services. Prior to this she held the role of Director of Research Support
Serv-ices at UL.
Dr. Mary Nunan, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance
Prior to joining UL in 2005 Dr Shire spent 11 years in the Pharmaceutical Industry where she held
management roles in a number of multinational pharmaceutical companies. While working with
leading US-based pharmaceutical company, Celgene Corporation, Dr Shire developed inventions
covered by 20 US patents for drug discovery. A number of these compounds are on the market in
the US and Europe.
Mary Nunan is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer and performer. She has been Course
Direc-tor of the MA in Contemporary Dance performance at the Irish World Academy of Music and
Dance, University of Limerick since 1999. Mary started her professional career as a member of
Dublin Contemporary Dance Theatre (1981-86) and then went on to become a founder member and
Artistic Direc-tor of Daghdha Dance Company from 1988-1999.
She created a substantial body of solo and ensemble choreographies for this company during that
period. These works were toured to venues nationally and were also presented at dance festivals
in London, Berlin, Munich, New York, Paris, and in Gavle, Sweden and Guanajuato, Mexico. Mary
has also been involved since 2002 as a collaborative artist and performer in the Maya Lila collective
under the directorship of Joan Davis. She has also created and performed works with Nigel Rolfe
and Karen Power Her most recent project entitled ‘Starting with T’ (2014) is a film installation. It was
created in collaboration artists Mary Wycherley, Jurgen Simpson and Monica Spencer. It is currently
installed in FabLab in Limerick City. Mary was a member of the Arts Council from 2003-2008. She was awarded a practice-based PhD, from Middlesex University, UK (2013).
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Dr Shire holds a PhD in Chemistry and an MBA. Dr Shire is a Fellow of the National Academy of
In-ventors and a Director of the Limerick Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Matthew Causey, Trinity College Dublin
Matthew Causey is Associate Professor in the School of Drama, Film and Music at Trinity College
Dublin where he is Director of the Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL). He is the author of
Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness (Routledge 2009),
and co-editor of Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject (Routledge, 2013) and
The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: from the virtual toward the real (Palgrave,
Forthcoming). Dr. Causey is a practice-based researcher incorporating elements of live performance,
music and video in his work. His recent performance work, Tall Ships was featured in the Dublin
Fringe Festival 2014 and he has released two digital recordings (The Art of Living and Obedientia
Civium Urbis Felicitas) with his band Tujacques.
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Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick
Professor Sarah Moore
Professor Timothy Emlyn Jones
SPEAKERS
Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick, Dublin Institute of Technology
Noel Fitzpatrick (doc ès lettres, Paris VII) is the Dean of GradCAM, Director of RADICUL and
Research Coordinator for the school of Art, Design and Printing at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
He teaches Philosophy and Aesthetics to postgraduate and undergraduate students at the school of
Art Design and Printing and he supervises PhD, Mphil and MA students in the College of Arts and
Tourism. Noel also gives seminars on phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy and technology at
the Graduate School. He is a leading member of the European Artistic Research Network, SHARE and
European Society of Aesthetics. He is regularly invited to speak and host seminars internationally
and is visiting lecturer at ZKM Karlshue, Germany, Saint Lucas University, Antwerp, Belgium. Noel is
a member of Ars Industrialis, (Founded by Bernard Stiegler) and represents the DIT on the Digital
Studies network at the l’institut de recherche et innovation (IRI) at the Pompidou Centre in Paris.
Professor Sarah Moore, University of Limerick
Professor Moore is the Associate Vice President Academic at the University of Limerick and chairs
Ireland’s newly established National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning. She has
researched and explored the process of academic development, teaching and learning, and uses
what she has found to help academics, teachers, researchers and students to develop productive
patterns of learning, innovation and professional development.
Professor Timothy Emlyn Jones, Burren College of Art
Timothy Emlyn Jones is an artist, art educationist and writer with a dual passion for art and art
education as transformative processes.
As an artist, he is best known for his vast performative charcoal drawings and for being one of the
earliest to consider his practice to be a process of enquiry. This perspective led him to become a
pioneer of doctorates in studio art in the UK, an approach that subsequently led to the courses in
creative process he teaches to non-artists such as executive MBA students, medical doctors,
and PhD students in all university disciplines at NUI Galway.
He was educated at Hornsey College of Art, London; Royal College of Art, London;
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Cardiff University and Cardiff Metropolitan University. He has been awarded professorships by Wimbledon College of Art, London; Glasgow School of Art/
University of Glasgow; Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China; and Burren College of Art/National
University of Ireland, Galway, where he is now Dean of Possibilities following ten years as
Academic Dean. He has been a visiting speaker at art schools and universities worldwide.
In much of her work she draws heavily on the theory of creativity which provides valuable and
under-utilised insights for higher education. Sarah has published several books and many journal papers on academic and educational
development including ‘The Handbook of Academic Writing’ (Rowena Murray) and ‘The Ultimate
Study Skills Handbook’ (with Maura Murphy, Colin Neville and Cornelia Connelly) and
‘New approaches to problem-based learving’ (with Terry Barrett).
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