Partners​​.

Funded by the Region Västra Götaland, Sweden

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Region Västra Götaland of Sweden has awarded Future Media Theaters key funding to begin the initiative, the first phase of which runs from September 2021 - September 2022. ​

Organizational Partners

Core Group

Lars Kristensen
Project Co-Director, Future Media Theaters

Lars is a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration at University of Skövde where his research focuses on the theory and criticism of moving images, which includes computer games. Lars' approach is analytical and historical, examining both the visual representation and the industry that produces the images, with a primary interest in researching postcommunism as reflected in Russian and European cinema. For more information, visit here.

Rebecca Rouse
Project Co-Director, Future Media Theaters

Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration at University of Skövde where her research focuses on both the history and practice of storytelling with new technologies. Rouse creates projects for museums, heritage sites, interactive installation, movable books, and theatrical performance, all with the thread of investigating and inventing new modes of storytelling. For more information, visit here. 

Lotta Lekvall
​CEO, Folkteatern Gothenburg

Lotta is the CEO of the Folkteatern in Gothenburg, where she has served since 2015. Prior to her position with Folkteatern, she was the CEO of Nätverkstan for 10 years, an independent Swedish resource center for small-scale journalistic, artistic and other cultural activities. Prior to this, Lotta worked at Stora Teatern, and served as a board member of the Kungliga Operan for several years. For more information, visit here. 

Joachim Nordvall
Producer, Folkteatern Gothenburg

Joachim is a Gothenburg based curator, composer and record label manager working in the fields of experimental music and stage arts. At Folkteatern he works with the musical and special program as well as the digital stage Fjärde Scenen. Since 1998 Joachim has run the iDEAL Recordings label and festival platform and he has since the late 80s been recording and performing solo and in groups. In the past, he has worked as club manager for the Nefertiti Jazz Club in Gothenburg (2003-2014), as president for Fylkingen centre for experimental stage arts in Stockholm (2011-2012) and produced the Swedish Energies festival in New York in collaboration with Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. Joachim has studied sound art at Valand University for Fine Arts and literature at Göteborgs Universitet.

Thomas Oldrell
​Director, Skövde Art Museum

Thomas is the director of the Skövde Art Museum. The museum's focus has an intersectional perspective on creating new fusions between artists and future art histories, and a particular emphasis on both historical and contemporary feminist artworks in the museum's permanent collection. In addition to exhibitions, programming, and public art, the museum hosts an art residency program with a focus on extended social art practice. Prior to this position, Thomas worked as a regional art advisor both for the region of West Sweden and for the island of Gotland. Thomas also has a background as a practicing visual artist, with twenty years' experience working in conceptual and performance art. 

Mette Muhli​
​​Curator, Skövde Art Museum

Mette is a curator at Skövde Art Museum. Her main focus is on building long-term relationships and expanding the museum’s outreach through curatorial research, interdisciplinary collaborations and educational projects. She is currently curating the museum’s artist in residency program, AiRS, and works as the editor of the museum’s book publications. Mette studied Photography at Fotoskolan Göteborg, Art History and Visual Studies at University of Gothenburg, Curatorial Studies at Stockholm University and MA Curating at Aarhus University, Denmark. For more information, visit here.

Collaborators

Israel Aloni
​​Artistic Director & Co-Founder, ilDance
Choreographer, educator, performer, and writer
​Gothenburg, Sweden

Diana Alvarez
Multimedia Artist & Educator
​Holyoke MA, USA

Anna Backman Rogers
Professor in Aesthetics & Culture
University of Gothenburg
​Gothenburg, Sweden

Zane Balčus
Project Manager, Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries
Riga, Latvia

Sarah Bay Cheng
​Professor of Theatre & Performance Studies
Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
York University, Toronto, Canada

Ágnes Karolina Bakk
PhD Researcher, MOME Innovation Center
Founder and Director of ZipScene immersive storytelling conference
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary

Dan Barnard
Lead Artist, FastFamiliar
Senior Lecturer, London South Bank University
Director, LSBU Digital Performance Research Group
London, UK

Tony Bhajam
Inclusion Producer on the Bristol+Bath Creative R+D Programme
Watershed/Pervasive Media Studio
​Bristol, UK

Harriet Bolwell 
Theatre Producer, Raucous
Bristol, UK

Astrid Breel
Impact Research Fellow at Bath Spa University
Member of Coney interactive performance collective
Bath Spa, UK

Rachel Briscoe
Lead Artist, FastFamiliar
Writer & Dramaturg
Reading, UK

Lars Bröndum
Professor of Music
University of Skövde, Sweden

Sharon Clark
​Creative Director, Raucous
Senior Lecturer in Writing for Performance & Immersion, University of West England, Bristol, UK

Ingrid Cogne
Artist, Facilitator, Dramaturge, Researcher in Arts, Choreography, and Sciences.
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Marc Destefano
Technical Program Manager, Google
New York City, NY

Mindy Drapsa
Artistic Director, Riksteatern Crea
Stockholm, Sweden

Sarah Ellis
Director of Digital Development, Royal Shakespeare Company
Stratford-Upon-Avon, England

Mats Erixon
Collaborator on Remote North
Faculty member in Audiovisual Media and Creative Technologies
Inland University of Applied Science, Norway

Tina Eriksson-Fredriksson
Contemporary Dance Producer, Program Developer, Festival Director
Riksteatern, Stockholm, Sweden

Jamie Fawcus
Senior Lecturer in Music
University of Skövde, Sweden

Joshua A. Fisher
Assistant Professor of Immersive and Interactive Media in the Department of Interactive Arts and Media, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Ian Garrett
Associate Professor of Ecological Design for Performance
Producer, ToasterLab
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts
York University, Toronto, Canada

Sandra Grehn
Lecturer in Culture & Aesthetics, Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden

Khamlane Halsackda
Media theater and dance choreographer, performer, & educator
Malmö, Sweden

Josh Higgason
Video, lighting, scenic, and interactive designer for theater, opera, concerts, and live performances; Theater design instructor at MIT.
Cambridge, MA USA

Lissa Holloway-Attaway
Associate Professor of Media Arts, Aesthetics and Narration
University of Skövde, Sweden

Erik Holmström
Director and Playwright
Folkteatern Gothenburg and Malmö Puppet Theatre, Sweden

Nina Jacques
Dramaturge and Director, The National Theatre of The Czech Republic
Prague, Czech Republic

Hedvig Jalhed
Experimental opera creator and performer; artistic researcher
Lecturer in Chamber Music & Opera, Mälardalen University
​Halmstad, Sweden

Erin Drake Kajioka
Designer, Human Game/System Hacker, Author, Speaker
IXD Lead @ Google AI
California, USA

Jennifer Kokai
Associate Professor of Theatre
Director & Playwright
Weber State University, Ogden, UT

Jenny Koons
​Theater Director & Educator
Co-Founder of Artists 4 Change NYC (National Black Theatre)
New York, NY

Laine Kristberga
Director of the Latvian Centre for Performance Art
​Riga, Latvia

Maurice Lamb
Senior Lecturer in Informatics
University of Skövde, Sweden

Mikael Lebram
Research Engineer in Informatics
University of Skövde, Sweden

Khanyisile Mbongwa
Independent Curator, Artist, & Sociologist
Cape Town, South Africa

Jared Mezzocchi
​Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance, Dance/Theatre Design and Production
Associate Director of the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Olga Nikolaeva
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Musikverket
Stockholm / Aleksanteri Institute
​Helsinki, Finland 

Matthew O'Hare
​Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Studies and Digital Fellow
Haverford College, Philadelphia, PA

Brendan Padgett
Director of Public Relations, The John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Media theater Composer & Dramaturg
​Washington D.C., USA

Scott Palmer
Associate Professor and Director of Student Education
School of Performance and Cultural Industries
Leeds University
Leeds, UK

Louise Persson
Program Director, Game Writing
University of Skövde, Sweden

Maria Reihs
Media theater and dance director, playwright, producer, & educator
Malmö, Sweden

Francisco Garcia Rivera
PhD Student, School of Engineering
​University of Skövde, Sweden

María Cecilia Reyes
Interactive Narrative Designer, VR and Film Screenwriter and Editor, & Scholar
Barranquilla, Colombia 

Frida Röhl
Artistic Director, Folkteatern
​Gothenburg, Sweden

Carl Rosengren
Head of Lighting, Sound, & Video
Riksteatern
Stockholm, Sweden

Josephine Rydberg
Doctoral Student in Film and Media, Stockholm University of the Arts
​Stockholm, Sweden

Mattias Rylander
Artistic Lecturer in Design
Experimental opera scenographer
​Kristianstad University, Sweden

David Z. Saltz
Professor and Department Head, Theatre & Film Studies
Executive Director, Ideas for Creative Exploration
​University of Georgia, USA

Melissa Shaginoff
Artist, social activist, and curator of Alaska Pacific University's Art Galleries
Nay'dini'aa Na Kayax (Chickaloon Village, Alaska)

Julia Scheving
Game Writing student in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration; Future Media Theatres video editor
​Skövde, Sweden

Roberto Sifuentes
Professor in Performance
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago USA

Gabriele Sofia
Professor in Performing Arts
DAMS of the University of Roma Tre
Rome, Italy

Anna Takanen
Actress, Director, Theater Director, and Author
Sweden

Theresa Jean Tanenbaum
Associate Professor in Informatics
University of California, Irvine
Co-Founder of the Transformative Play Lab
Irvine, CA USA

Miha Turšič
Artist, Designer, & Researcher dedicated to the development of arts and humanities in outer space
​Open Space Lab Lead, Waag
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paula Varjack-Lowry
​Performance/Video Artist & Facilitator
Digital Dramaturg
Digital Performance Network
Barbican Open Lab Artist
London Pleasance Associate
​London, UK

Meike Wagner
Professor of Theatre Studies,
Stockholm University, Sweden

Petra Weckström
Technical Director, Riksteatern
​Stockholm, Sweden

Josefin Westborg
University Lecturer in Game Design
Uppsala University
Games and Culture Lab
Co-founder of Lekreativ/Lajvbyran (The LARP Agency)
​Gotland, Sweden
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