Alexis’ recent performancesat the Victoria & Albert Museum in London led to media and blog interest with one blog saying “The performance was extremely effective – my heart was in my throat the whole time”. Other interest can be seen below:
Scientific American – ‘Biofeedback and the Bard: Alexis Kirke Debuts “Conducting Shakespeare”’
Wired – ‘Audience excitement to “conduct” live Shakespeare show’
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-04/24/biosensor-shakespeare
Vice – ‘Shakespeare, Remixed by Biosensors’
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/shakespeare-remixed-by-biosensors
WhatsOnStage – ‘To weep or not to weep? Scientists monitor Shakespeare responses’
HumansInvent (Sharp’s official blog) – ‘Remixing the Bard: Using sensors to rewrite Shakespeare’
www.humansinvent.com/#!/16042/remixing-the-bard-using-sensors-to-rewrite-shakespeare/
The Shakespeare Blog – ‘Shakespeare and the brain: Conducting Shakespeare’
http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/04/shakespeare-and-the-brain-conducting-shakespeare/
DESIblitz – ‘Conducting Shakespeare mixes Science and Theatre’
http://www.desiblitz.com/content/conducting-shakespeare-mixes-science-theatre
Evening Herald / WMN etc – ‘Emotion-reading seat sensors will shape Shakespeare classics in Plymouth performance experiment’
brand-e – ‘As you like it’
The Art of Science – ‘EMPIRICALLY CURATED ART’
http://alexiaalexanderwight.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/empiricalart/
Shakespeare Geek – ‘Conducting Shakespeare’
http://blog.shakespearegeek.com/2014/04/conducting-shakespeare.html