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Stephan Jürgens
Stephan Jürgens holds a Ph.D. in contemporary choreography and new media technologies. His research interests focus on designing creative strategies for live performance involving interactive systems. He has been teaching movement research, interdisciplinary choreography and interactive system design in many different learning environments and institutions for many different people ranging from interested beginners to professional performers and MA/Ph.D. students. As a choreographer he has presented several works supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture.
As a core researcher of the ERC-funded BlackBox project, Stephan is collaboratively exploring the intersection of the performing arts with newest digital media technologies to support software development assisting the creative processes and performance composition. More concretely, his focus is on the ‘translation’ of artistic conceptual structures in the work of selected artists into the software architecture of a novel collaborative platform to be built during the course of the project.