We've linked to a great blog post by Karen Green of our festival partners, the Renaissance Computing Institute, a major collaborative venture of faculty, staff and students at Duke University, North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with the state of North Carolina.

Here's a taste of her post... click the link below to access the full blog:

“We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people”. –Pierre Omidyar, eBay Founder

Maybe Omidyar overestimated the ability of technology to bring people together, to create in new ways and form communities that have no physical limits.

Or maybe not.

CHAT (Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology) will explore the impact of technology on our lives; how it has changed the way we interact and how it has stirred the imaginations of artists, helping them create new forms of expression.

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We've been blogged! Christine Evans, who is working on the Virtual Performance Factory Project recently posted an update on her work. Here's a blurb and a link to her full post:

The time’s approaching for the CHAT festival at UNC Chapel Hill. It’s been so much fun to write for this event, as part of the Virtual Performance Factory. Like many playwrights, I’m well acquainted with “development hell” and this gig, by contrast, has always involved a guarantee that the thing will be taken into full production—in collaboration with Icarus, a commercial video game company (Fallen Earth producers).

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