The Future Physical programme features six commissioned performance pieces.

Taking place in East England between December 2002 and April 2003, they vary from a site-specific piece using wearable computing to interact between an interior space and the surrounding area to a performance in which the audience, via text-messaging, gains control over dancers’ bodies. Bringing together cutting-edge technology and virtuoso performers, Future Physical performances will offer audiences pioneering new experiences.

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This group of motion poets, cyborgs, and sound, video and net-artists will collaborate on a series of site-specific remote connection theatre performances that challenge boundaries between audience and performer, on-stage and off-stage, the venue and the street outside.
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Sophia Lycouris, Yacov Sharir, Stan Wijnans

Intelligent City places its viewers at the centre of the interaction. A site-specific interactive environment for everyday spaces, such as shopping centres, hospitals or libraries.
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Vicky Bennett/ People Like Us

To research and develop an interactive video installation using documentary/educational/industrial film footage triggered by sensors within a space.
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Sheron Wrey

Texterritory is a playground performance concept in which the audience has control over physical bodies (dancers and musicians) along with lighting, music and midi system at specific times in the performance.
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Thecla Schiphorst and Susan Kozel

Whisper is a participatory installation that uses small, custom-designed wearable computers and handheld devices. Focusing on body architecture, Whisper aims to unearth physical data patterns of the body, mapping that data onto linked and networked devices worn on or close to the skin, such as earrings.
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