Two-day Interdisciplinary Conference, Thursday 9th – Friday 10th July 2009 
King’s College London, Strand, Room K2.31

PROGRAMME

Thursday 9 July 2009

11.00-11.30	Registration Room K2.31 (formerly 2C) & Coffee in River Room

11.30-12 	Introduction

Professor Richard Beacham, King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College London, Project Director

12-1.30 	Recreating the Ancient Theatre Mask: from digital to physical

Chair: Professor Richard Beacham (King’s Visualisation Lab)

•	Margaret Coldiron (University of Durham) - Selecting the objects
•	Martin Blazeby (King’s Visualisation Lab) - Digital modelling and rapid prototyping
•	Malcolm Knight (Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre) - Physical mask-making

1.30-2.30 Lunch River Room

2.30-4	 	Reconstructing Ancient Performance Spaces: the spaces and their dynamics 
	
	Chair: Professor David Saltz (University of Georgia)

•	Hugh Denard (King’s Visualisation Lab) - The spaces: Pompey, Pompeii & Oplontis
•	Martin Blazeby (King’s Visualisation Lab) – Digitally modelling performance spaces 
•	Michael Takeo Magruder (King’s Visualisation Lab) – Integrating performances into virtual spaces

			4-4.20 Tea Break River Room

4.20-6 	Mask, Space and Performance: theoretical and trans-cultural experiments

Chair: Malcolm Knight (Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre)
 
•	Margaret Coldiron (University of Durham) –  Masters and Masks: experiments in theatre history
•	Tiffany Strawson –  Naming the Invisible: spiritual aspects of Balinese and Western masked performance
•	Carlota Bérard-Knitlová – Masks and Mysteries in Modernist and Postmodern Performance
•	James Sutherland (University of Essex) – Masque Neutre: embodied emptiness and the creation of space” [includes practical demonstrations]. 

6-8pm Drinks Reception River Room

Supported by

Friday 10 July 2009

9.30-10 Registration, Room K2.31 & Coffee in River Room

10-11.30	(Room K2.31): New Research on Ancient Masks and Performance

Chair: Fiona MacIntosh (Archive of Performance of Greek and Roman Drama, University of 	Oxford)

•	Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway, University of London) – Pantomime Horses: masked performance by the Roman cavalry
•	Chris Vervain – The Tragic Mask; its impact and pedagogic uses
•	Richard Williams (Durham University) – Ancient Masks and Facial Perception

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45-1.30 	Artefacts, Actors and Avatars in the Digital Age

Chair: Richard Beacham (King’s Visualisation Lab)
 
•	Stuart Robson (University College London) – The e-Curator Project
•	Barbara May & James Shippen (University of Coventry) –  3D Motion Capture in Performance Analysis
•	David Saltz (University of Georgia) –  Performative Historiography: Virtual Vaudeville
•	Matthew Delbridge (Queen Mary, University of London) –  The Ghost in the Shell

1.30 - 2.30 Lunch River Room

2.30-3.30	Research, Curation, Performance and Education: Where do we go from here?
		
		Panel Chair: Hugh Denard (King’s Visualisation Lab) 

•	Malcolm Knight (Scottish Mask and Puppet Centre) 
•	Fiona MacIntosh (University of Oxford) 
•	Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway, University of London)
•	Stuart Robson (University College London) 
•	David Saltz (University of Georgia)

3.30-4.00 	Concluding comments by Richard Beacham (King’s Visualisation Lab)

		Conference webpage: www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/masks/july2009.html