THIS IS HOW IT ENDS: Conversations and Musings on the Future of Emerging Technologies and Performance is a forum focused on the relationship between performance and emerging technologies. The dominant concern when discussing the two is how performance might harness these technologies and what art might look like in the future. What if we look at it from another vantage point — might performance be able to disrupt and influence emerging technology? How could the concerns of performance (language, space, corporeality, materiality, time, emotions, inclusivity) impact technology in this time of lighting speed transformation? Join us for an idiosyncratic combination of panel discussions, lectures, demonstrations and performances that ruminate on the future/s of performance and technology.

Speakers currently include:

Janani Balasubramaniam  (Writer, game designer, and immersive theater maker)
James Coupe (Associate Professor, UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media )
Thomas Duele (Neurobiologist and Acting Assistant Professor, UW Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media)
Andrew Kircher (Director of Devised Theater Initiative, The Public Theater)
Dafina Toussainté McMillan (Co-founder, Crux)
Ahamefule J. Oluo  (Musician, Stand-up Comedian, Film-maker)
Meiyin Wang (Curator, Producer, Director)

Curated by Meiyin Wang (Creative Research Fellow at the University of Washington) and Co-Presented by Meany Center for the Performing Arts, the School of Drama at University of Washington, and Town Hall Seattle.

This project is presented with support from the Mellon Creative Fellowship Initiative, an interdisciplinary pilot project at the University of Washington exploring the nature of creative research.