NPAPW24 | 3 DAYS OF PERFORMING ARTS TECHNOLOGIES
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)
The 2024 Network Performing Arts Production Workshop (NPAPW24) is part of an annual workshop series hosted in a rotating city of Europe and the U.S. It is a single track workshop in which attendees learn about technologies utilising advanced networks to enable arts instruction and performance, experience master classes and live performances leveraging these technologies, share research exploring efficacy of these technologies, and meet the colleagues and representatives from institutions advancing this realm of work.
It is a workshop co-organised by GÉANT and Internet2 designed to bring together an international community to delve into technologies leveraging advanced networks. The focus is on facilitating interactive arts instruction, hosting master classes, conducting multisite performances, and facilitating remote auditions.
This year’s NPAPW workshop will take place at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre on 11-13 September.
ABOUT NPAPW24
In 2000, Internet2, the U.S. research and education networking consortium, identified the potential of using advanced networks for arts and humanities and began bringing technicians, academics and artists together for Network Performing Arts Production Workshops in 2003. Since the beginning, the annual workshops took place at the campus of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida.
In 2002, what was then known as TERENA (now GÉANT), the European Research and Education Networking Association, started to address the needs of the user communities in the arts and humanities areas with the SERENATE study.
Since 2009, NPAPW have been held in Europe and the United States annually. The European workshops were held in Trieste in 2009, Paris in 2010, Barcelona in 2011, Vienna in 2013, London in 2015, Copenhagen in 2017 and Prague in 2019. In 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018 workshops were organised at the New World Symphony in Miami. The 2020 workshop has been cancelled due the COVID19 pandemic and the 2021 edition has been organised online.
Currently NPAPW is a collaborative project of GÉANT, Internet2, New World Symphony, GARR (Italian NREN) and other European national research and education networks (NRENs), working together with cultural institutions around the world to organise the annual event.