Matthew Causey
Matthew Causey is Associate Professor, Fellow, and Director of the Arts Technology Research Laboratory of Trinity College Dublin. He is author of 'Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: from simulation to embeddedness' (Routledge 2006). Recent publications include the co-editing of 'The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology: through the virtual towards the real' (Palgrave, 2015) which includes his chapter, 'The Right to be Forgotten and the Image-Crimes of Digital Culture' and Performance, Identity and the Neo-political Subject (Routledge, 2014). His essay 'The Object of Desire of the Machine: the biopolitics of the posthuman' is anthologized in 'Resisting Biopolitics: philosophical, political and performative strategies' edited by Wilmer and Zukauskaite (Routledge, 2015). His theoretical writings on performance and techno-culture have been published in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research Int'l, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and TheatreForum among others. In 2015 he was keynote speaker at Ghent University's conference 'Does It Matter: Composite Bodies and Posthuman Prototypes in Contemporary Performing Arts' and the 'Digital Echoes' symposium at CDARE of Coventry University. In 2016 he is scheduled to keynote the 'Coimbra International Conference On the Virtual' at University of Coimbra, Department of Philosophy, Portugal. Funded by the HEA he created the Arts Technology Research Laboratory, which serves as an interdisciplinary postgraduate research centre in the area of art, technology and digital culture. He designed the Arts Strand of the HEA-funded Ireland-wide PhD in Digital Arts and Humanities which partners TCD, UCC, NUIM, NUIG and northern partners UU and QUB in a collaborative programme training researchers in new technologies, practices and theories of digital research. Dr. Causey is also a digital filmmaker and he has adapted, edited and directed three of Samuel Beckett's televisual works, 'Ghost Trio', 'Nacht und Träume' and ' but the clouds '. His film, 'Frank and Marie', was an official selection of both the Boston Irish Film Festival and Dublin's Darklight Digital Festival in 2004. As a musician he has recently produced two releases of original compositions, 'The Art of Living' and 'Obedientia Civium Urbis Felicitas' with his band Tujacques whose live performances included a spot at the Body and Soul stage of the Electric Picnic 2012. As a theatre maker his performance work 'Tall Ships' was featured in the Dublin Fringe Festival 2014. His original theatre works including 'Luminous Bodies', 'Paradise Regained', 'The Ecstasy of St. Zero, Retold', which were all chosen as 'Choices' in NYC's Village Voice were presented in New York at such venues as the Envelope at the Performing Garage, the Open Space in Soho, and Soho Books. His production of 'Faust', a multimedia interpretation with his research group the Performance Technology Research Laboratory of Georgia Tech where he was Assistant Professor, was staged in Atlanta at 7 Stages.
Address: Dublin, Ireland
Address: Dublin, Ireland
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