sally jane norman

Born in Napier, Aotearoa, Sally Jane’s background and interests are in live performance, art & technology, and interdisciplinary research. She followed a Master of Arts from Canterbury with a Doctorat de 3ème cycle and Doctorat d’état at the Institut d’Etudes théâtrales, Université de Paris III, funding her research as a scientific translator. Commissioned papers include publications for the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UNESCO and the French Ministry of Culture; she has led art and technology events including the New Images Conference at the Louvre (992) and performance research at the International Institute of Puppetry in Charleville-Mézières, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam (as artistic co-director), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, and IRCAM in Paris. Sally Jane worked on EU Framework projects at the ZKM before becoming Director General of the Ecole supérieure de l’image in France (Angoulême/ Poitiers), where she launched a pioneering practice-based Digital Arts doctorate with Poitiers University. Since 2004, as founding director of Newcastle University’s Culture Lab, a digital laboratory working with Newcastle’s three faculties (Humanities, Science, Medicine), her role is to seed and host a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects. Sally Jane ensures consultancy for numerous international research and policy bodies; as a stubborn believer in the power of collaborative, interdisciplinary energies to spearhead innovative cultural and technological processes, she tends to work naturally in unclassifiable discomfort zones. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/people/profile/s.j.norman