Intellect

Johannes Birringer is professor of Performance Technologies in the School of Arts at Brunel University (London) where he directs the DAP-Lab and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance. He is a choreographer and artistic director of AlienNation Co., a multimedia ensemble based in Houston (www.aliennationcompany.com). He has created numerous dance-theatre works, video installations, interactive works and site-specific performances in collaboration with artists in Europe, North America, Latin America, China and Japan. Author of several books, including Media and Performance: Along the Border (1998), Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture (2000), Performance, Technology & Science (2008), and Dance and Cognition (coeditor, 2005). He founded Interaktionslabor Göttelborn in Germany, and directs media and performance workshops all over the world, in Belo Horizonte, Istanbul, Beijing, Oslo, and at the EMPAC.