INTER-FACE: International Conference on Live Interfaces 2014

INTER-FACE: International Conference on Live Interfaces 2014, ed. Adriana Sá, Miguel Carvalhais, Alex McLean. Porto University, CECL & CESEM (NOVA University), MITPL (University of Sussex), 2015. ISBN 978-989-746-060-9

With preface interview-discussion “Live Interfaces: Seeds of Debate” by Adriana Sá, Joel Ryan, Edwin van der Heide, Atau Tanaka, Andrew McPherson, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Miguel Carvalhais and Mick Gierson, pp. 14-28. https://adrianasa.org/images/publications/SeedsOfDeebate.pdf

INTER-FACE, the second International Conference on Live Interfaces, was dedicated to problematizing convergences and divergences between different understandings of performance technology. It sought to expose a variety of motivations and approaches, and discuss how specifc understandings of ‘liveness’, ‘immediacy’, ‘timing’ or ‘fow’ manifest in performance with digital media. 

It gathered paper presentations, performances, interactive installations, poster demonstrations and workshops. It happened in Lisbon, Portugal, at the Fine Arts Faculty of the University Lisbon (FBAUL); the School of Music of the National Conservatorium (EMCN); ZDB; the National Museum for Contemporary Arts (MNAC) and the Institute of Art, Design and Enterprise (IADE). These Proceedings were published a year after the conference itself. The authors had the opportunity to strengthen their work beneftting from the feedback of the other participants and the editorial peer-review. The Conference included two round-tables, “Problematizing Foundations” and “Further Directions”. These moments were extremely useful to outline a common ground of discussion, and we wanted the proceedings to include a general dimension as well. This is the purpose of the preface-interview, which developed through a collaborative online discussion after the conference itself.