:: The second international Opensource: {Videodance} symposium.
:: Universal Hall Arts Centre, Findhorn Foundation Community, Morayshire, Scotland
:: 21st - 25th November 2007.

Screen dance is a rapidly expanding area of artistic, academic and curatorial activity worldwide. Inherent in screen dance practice is
the interface and collaboration between dance artists and media arts
practitioners. Opensource: {Videodance} 2007 is an open symposium for video dance-makers and dance artists, academics, curators and
producers coming together, to share ideas and work, network and
debate, and provide a valuable platform for current issues in the
area of screen dance practice to come to the surface.

Building on the strengths of the 2006 event, this symposium expressly aims to place current screen dance practice in a wider theoretical
and critical context and to bring people from the collaborating
disciplines together in a way that rarely happens, in order to impact significantly and positively on the lives and work of the
participating individuals. The vision is to create an exciting and
supportive place for people to engage, talk, hang out, relax, think,
and listen, and to enable the spontaneous and dynamic unfolding of
events. The programme for the four days will be a mixture of pre-
arranged presentations and open forums initiated by the participants.

Whilst the greater part of the timetable will be dedicated to
allowing the participants to initiate and following though
discussion, we will again approach a select few artists/academics to
give special presentations/lectures designed to inspire and provoke
thought beyond the direct concerns of the participants. In addition,
this year we are inviting proposals for limited number of presentations.

:: Call for proposals:

Seminar and Paper proposals are invited for presentation from authors
(Academics and practitioners) of investigations into the interfaces
of screen dance to one of the following formats:
Academic research paper, Reports on practice-based work, Essay,
Curated screening of work.

We encourage contributions that are related to all aspects of screen
dance practice including interdisciplinary approaches in performance,

architecture, music, literature, visual arts, and new media but
particular preference will be given to those exploring the outcomes
of the first Opensource {Videodance} symposium in 2006, notably the