AHDS Performing Arts published a risk assessment of the AHDS Performing Arts Collections in response to the withdrawal of core funding. You can read the report here.

AHDS Performing Arts delivered a panel at DRHA 2007, 'Doing Digital: Using Digital Resources In The Arts And Humanities'. Daisy Abbott, Sarah Jones and Hannah Little considered the nature of performance documentation and the merits of various representations. Click here for a report on the full event, including the AHDS PA panel.

AHDS Performing Arts held a Summer School on the topic of 'Digital Representations of Performing Arts' in Edinburgh from 18 - 20th July 2007. Discussion wide-ranging and debate was lively. Visit the Summer School 2007 page for summaries, video clips and presentation details.

New world-class collections for Live and Performance Art research are now available through AHDS Performing Arts collections. See http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/liveart.htm for more details.

Download a flyer about Live Art collections from AHDS Performing Arts

AHDS Performing Arts have been successful in their e-Science Programme bid to hold a summer school on digital representations of performance at the e-Science Institute, Edinburgh in July 2007. This generous support from the eSI allows AHDS Performing Arts to bring together a range of speakers to explore the collaborative possibilities that exist between the e-Science and Performing Arts communities. The event will consider the opportunities offered to Performing Arts scholarship by e-Science and address ways in which e-Science technologies can help shape future directions in the access and use of digital Performing Arts collections. Seamus Ross, Director of HATII, the centre in which AHDS Performing Arts is based, was delighted with the news saying ‘the successful bid is testament to the hard work and determination of the AHDS Performing Arts team.’ Encouraging collaboration between those working in Performing Arts and e-Science has already produced valuable and exciting research and this 3-day summer school is set to continue this work.
A programme and booking details will be released soon but if you would like to register interest in the meantime please contact Daisy Abbott at D.Abbott AT hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk.
AHDS Performing Arts: http://www.ahds.ac.uk/performingarts/
e-Science Institute: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

Anatomical Exoskeleton is the first of six collections documenting work in the field of Sci-Art or Bio-Art related to The Human-Machine Choreography project, an interdisciplinary project performed by the Digital Research Unit in the School of Art and Design at Nottingham Trent University. Information, videos, and images of this work are now available from the AHDS-hosted Anatomical Exoskeleton Website.

All AHDS Performing Arts reports and policies can now be downloaded from our Reports and Policies page.

The AHDS Performing Arts Scoping Study: Getting to Know Our Audience provides information on the state of teaching and research in UK HE institutions, how digital resources are created and used, what the Performing Arts community wants in terms of access to and support for digital resources, and considers how Performing Arts can be documented and preserved in the future.

The full report is available free online and as a printed booklet: AHDS Performing Arts Scoping Study: Getting to Know Our Audience (1.7Mb).