Academic coursework in Performance and Technology are at the center of SLIPPAGE’s teaching initiative. The coursework brings together engineering students from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering with humanities and arts students from Northwestern’s School of Communication. The popular course includes demonstrations and performance showings in the lab space, as well as public presentations in the SLIPPAGE Lab.
This course, taught at DUKE from 2011-2021, and at Northwestern beginning in 2022, offers a workshop exploration of technologies embedded in performance: robots, media, computer interface. Students create performance projects and discuss theoretical and historical implications of technologies in performance. Hands-on making and engineering workshops to develop basic skills in technological crafts such as circuit design and fabrication toward technologically enhanced performance. No previous experience or programming skills required and the course regularly enrolls both . Each iteration of the course includes a public demonstration of small robot projects, as well as a theatrical performance on stage related to some of the materials from the course.
Enjoy these videos of past performances from over the years.
