Translation Studies: April 16 - PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY, TRANSLATION

[The Center for Translation Studies]

Greetings from the Center for Translation Studies at Barnard College.

We write to invite you to our next event on Thursday, April 16, 2015:

Performance, Technology, Translation
A two-part event exploring the theoretical and practical intersections between contemporary technologies of translation and performance,
presented by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies and the Department of Theatre, Stages of Inquiry

Panel:
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, 2 PM, followed by discussion and reception

• Rita Raley, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara
  “Algorithmic Translations”
  

• W. B. Worthen, Professor of Theatre, Barnard College, Columbia University
  “Theatre Technicity”
  

Performance:
The Glicker-Milstein Theatre, Diana Center, 6 PM, followed by conversation with speakers, director, and performers at 7 PM

• love.abz, conceived and directed by Otso Huopaniemi

In 2010, Finnish playwright and performance artist Otso Huopaniemi ran his play, An ABZ of Love, through Google Translate, machine translating the play from Finnish to English; then he ran the play back, and repeated this recursive procedure over and over again. What began as an experiment in machine translation has evolved into a performance work, using live acting and live machine translation to explore the fragility of language, of understanding, of our ongoing relationship with machines, and questioning the notion of authorship as well. love.abz has been performed in New York, Berlin, Cardiff, Karlsruhe, and Helsinki, with four different casts and using a variety of languages. The Barnard performance, directed by Huopaniemi and performed by Catherine Copplestone, Emily Gleeson, Federico Rodriguez, and Eeva Semerdjiev, will form the latest link in the chain of human and machine translations.

Conference panel is free and open to the public
No reservations required

Performance of love.abz is free and open to the public
Free tickets available at the TIC and at the door

Information
Mike Cavalier
mcav...@barnard.edu

Co-sponsored by
Kone Foundation
Consulate General of Finland

Visit the event website at theatre.barnard.edu/loveabz

And, as always, please feel free to circulate information on this free event to anyone who may be interested.