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Hilde Teuchies

Hilde Teuchies is managing director of CREW (B), the company  of Eric Joris which combines theatre and new technology. She also works for LOD, a production house for music-theatre (B) and as an independent expert in cultural affairs.
Hilde Teuchies was co-ordinator of the Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM), co-ordinator of the Association of European Cities of Culture 2000 and expert for Brussels 2000, European City of Culture. She worked with a large number of Flemish performing artists and organisations.
She is co-founder and former President of the European Forum for the Arts and Heritage, an advocacy organisation for the cultural sector at a European level. She is a member of the Evaluation Committee for Art Centres of the Ministry of the Flemish Community (B) . She has a long-standing experience in international cultural co-operation, cultural policy and cultural networking.

CREW _ Brief introduction

Website:             www.crewonline.org
Keywords:             immersive experience art, live art + technology, reality engineering, real virtuality, performativity, media as a prosthesis

Building a network of artists and scientists, CREW - a Belgium based performance group initiated by Eric Joris - has, since 1996, proved to be a pioneer in setting up experiments that blur the border between technology and theatre. These experiments resulted in a radically sophisticated symbiosis.

The group explores new forms of theatricality, thereby taking technology as a starting-point, rather than embedding technology in traditional theatre structures. The artistic outcome tends to be hybrid; technological live art troubles well-installed categories of theatricality. CREW wants to explore how these hybridities can be operated, both on a theoretical and on a practical level. The key question is: “What happens when digital technology really merges production and reflection within the context of the stage - insofar as one can still speak of a ‘stage’?”

The real-time stage is the location par excellence to explore the impact of new media on everyday culture. An on going dialogue with the developments in robotics and computer sciences triggers the theatrical imagination of design and production as well as in text and sound. Researchers from different universities and different fields of research cooperate in CREW where they find experimental theatre a laboratory in which they can share knowledge and test the progress of their own work.

Generally, in multi-medial theatre, digital media like video and audio are used as a visual cue and expressive means, usually serving as an illustration of the live performance on stage. CREW however, uses technology as a starting point to determine the dramaturgical strategies - not vice versa. The challenge then consists in finding ways to translate technological schemes and structures into dramaturgical and narrative concepts. CREW’s operating codes are 'Multimedia as a Prosthesis', 'Radical Confluence' and ‘Reality Engineering’.

CREW receives structural financial support from the Ministry of the Flemish Community of Belgium. This support enables the organization to establish a structure in which research & development can be fused with creation & distribution.

_ Eric Joris
CREW artist/director, Antwerp, Belgium
Multimedia artist with an initial education in film making, covering many areas such as industrial design, graphic design, cartoons, visual arts, installation art and last but not least performance art. Under his direction, CREW adamantly aims at making performances at the melting point between live art and digital media.
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and the Brussels RITS Institute for Media en Film, studied languages, art history and economy at Paris (Sorbonne), Cambridge University, Heidelberg (Collegium Palatinum) and Tokyo (ETP fundings by European Government)

_ Dr. Kurt Vanhoutte
Assistant Professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), and Assistant Professor in the Department Theatre, Film and Literature studies at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Dr. Vanhoutte has published widely on contemporary art theory, the history and future of the avant-garde, cultural identity, and the technological condition.

_ Professor Philippe Bekaert
Nuclear scientist, professor and project manager at the Expertise Centre for Digital Media, University of Hasselt, Belgium. Dr. Bekaert is a key researcher in the fields of image-based rendering, global illumination and hardware-accelerated rendering, focussing on human-computer interactions. Bekaert and his team develop the hard- and software for the CREW-performances.

_ Hilde Teuchies
CREW managing director
e-mail:                         hilde.teuchies@crewonline.be
phone:                        +32(0)477 35 40 88
skype:                        hildeteuchies

_ Vicky Vermoezen
CREW production co-ordinator
e-mail:                         vicky.vermoezen@crewonline.org
phone:                        +32(0)476 33 33 76

_ Vincent Jacobs
CREW operator
e-mail:                         vincent.jacobs@crewonline.org
phone:                        +32(0)477 35 40 88
skype:                        ojasman

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