Senior Lecturer in Media Performance

My practice-led PhD research was on Video and Animation Projections in Contemporary Dance Performances (University of Southampton, 2006).

My background studies include BA (Hons) in Political Science, MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis and MA in Directing and Editing Fiction Productions.

Before joining the University of Bedfordshire I worked as Assistant Director and Production Manager in films, TV series, operas, theatrical performances and dance performances.

My experience also includes extended experimentation with an animation technique, entitled Motion Capture, taking on the role of the digital choreographer.

The animation works I have created have gained awards in national and international festivals and have been broadcast by MTV Europe.

Qualifications

• PhD on the integration of Live Choreography with Projection of 3D Moving Images, (University of Southampton)
• MA in Film and Television Fiction, Northern Media School, (Sheffield Hallam University)
• MA in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, (University of Essex)
• BA in Political Science, Panteios, (University in Athens, Greece)

Teaching Expertise

• Cultural Studies, Performance and Media Theory
• Performance Management

Research Interests

• 3D Animation
• Motion Capture
• Integration of video and animation projections with live choreographies
• Interaction of visuals with live performers

Research Projects

• lntegration of video and animation projections in contemporary dance performances (working with motion capture creating digital choreographies)

Publications

• 2012: A Cross Disciplinary Approach to the Realisation of the Annual Graduate Fashion Show at the University of Bedfordshire (Co-authorship with Beverley Bothwell) - HEA Discipline Workshop and Seminar Series 2011-2012 – Media, Art and Design Programmes, University of Bedfordshire
• 2010: Unconscious and the Wonder of Creativity – International Conference on Dance Bodies: Practices and Politics, Association of Greek Choreographers and the University of Peloponnese
• 2010: "Start from Scratch", digital chorography based on motion capture data and video effects in collaboration with Studio 19 in Athens, Greece. Composer Mikael Delta. Screened in the International Conference Dance Bodies: Practices and Politics, Association of Greek Choreographers and the University of Peloponnese in Athens in April 2010 and in CINEDANS dance-screen festival in Amsterdam in December 2010.

Contact Details

T:  +44 (0)1234 129144
E:  maria.wiener@beds.ac.uk