Announcing TEDxCalArts: Performance, Body & Presence, March 9th in Los Angeles

On March 9, 2013 the California Institute of the Arts Center for New Performance will host TEDxCalArts at REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles. This all-day event will gather thinkers, doers and innovators to talk about the big ideas that are shaping our world.

Through a series of talks and performances by a diverse array of presenters, our conference will explore how new understandings of performance and liveness are radically changing our experience of art, technology, culture, and politics.

Some of our speakers are performance-based artists, i.e. electronic music pioneer Atau Tanaka, or dancer/choreographer Nora Chipaumire. We also made efforts to look around and outside of the arts for other perspectives that can enhance and inform our understanding of performance, i.e. activists the Yes Men, architect Peggy Deamer, and media-theorist Franco Berardi Bifo.

Other speakers include:

Sardono Kusomo, Dancer, Choreographer
Chris Kallmyer, Musician, Artist
Mirjana Jokovic, Actress
Teddy Cruz, Architect
Ricardo Dominguez, Artist & Activist, UCSD Center for Drone Policy and Ethics
Brian Massumi & Erin Manning, Social Theorist, Media Artist

With special performances by:

Killsonic, Experimental Orchestra Marching Band
Douglas Kearney, Poet/Performer
Ajay Kapur, Music Roboticist
Jeepneys, Music/Magic/Healing

And perhaps some surprise special guests!

TEDxCalArts: Performance, Body & Presence

March 9th, 2013 @ REDCAT

9:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration now open with special discounts for students and CalArts alumni. Visit http://tedxcalarts.org for more information.

For those of you not in the Los Angeles region, we will be live streaming the conference in its entirely. Stay tuned for more details, or join our email list to receive updates.

Mark your calendars! TEDxCalArts is official

Mark your calendars! We are pleased to announce that on March 9, 2013 the CalArts Center for New Performance will host TEDxCalArts. With the generous support of the MetLife/TCG A-ha! Do It Grant, this all-day event will gather together a diverse array of the world’s brightest minds to talk about the big ideas and innovations that are shaping our world.



Through a series of talks and performances, our conference will explore how new understandings of performance and liveness are radically changing the world we live in.

TEDxCalArts will be held at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), CalArts’ downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts.

Visit our website, http://tedxcalarts.org, or follow us on Facebook and Twitter for updates and announcements about our line-up of speakers.

Who We Are

The Center for New Performance (CNP) is the professional producing arm of CalArts, established to provide a unique artist- and project-driven framework for the development and realization of innovative theater, music, dance and interdisciplinary projects. Extending the forward-looking work carried out at CalArts into a direct dialogue with professional communities at the local, national and international levels, CNP offers an alternative model for the support of emerging voices and directions in the performing arts.

About TEDx

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED- like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized. This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.