Rebecca Caines
Dr. Rebecca Caines is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar. Her teaching, research, and art are explorations in creative technologies that include sound art, new media, and augmentation, contemporary performance and improvisation, site-specific art practices, and community-engaged art.[1][2] Her academic writing focuses on different forms of community-based performance art practices, including guerilla theatre, site-specific art, and hip-hop music, art, and dance.[3] She is a co-editor of The improvisation studies reader : spontaneous acts (2015)[4] and author of Troubling spaces : the politics of "New" community-based guerrilla performance in Australia (2008).[5]
Originally from Australia, she has led a community-based art practice in Australia, Northern Ireland and Canada.[3] She has taught university classes in theatre and performance in Australia, and worked as a community arts development officer in Northern Ireland. She is currently a prairie-based researcher in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada,[3] where she is an Associate Professor at the University of Regina in Interdisciplinary Studies and Creative Technologies.[2]
Education[edit]
Caines received her Bachelor of Arts in Theatre with Research Honours at the University of New South Wales in 2000, and her PhD in Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales in 2008.[2][3]
Career[edit]
Creative Technologies[edit]
Rebecca Caines is a leader in developing the Creative Technologies area at the University of Regina, which became a new area of study in 2014.[6] It's an interdisciplinary program that includes courses from the areas of fine arts, computer science, engineering, and new media.[6] The courses offer opportunities to collaborate, experiment, and think laterally.[6] Caines teaches courses within the program, including an iPad Orchestra class, which explores different ways of engaging with mobile audio and visual technologies as a creative and teaching tool.[2]
Projects[edit]
Community Sound [e]Scapes[edit]
Dr. Caines was the lead researcher in the Community Sound [e]Scapes proejct. Community Sound [e]Scapes is an international research and art project exploring sound art, community, improvised creativity and the participant's sense of place and where they live.[7] The project was run by the Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice research initiative and based out of the University of Guelph. [7]
Onward Willow-Better Beginnings, Better Futures[edit]
The Onward Willow project is facilitated by Dr. Rebecca Caines and Dr. Ellen Waterman at the University of Guelph.[8] It's a series of recurring improvisation workshops linking University of Guelph students with community members that use the Onward Willow facilities. The workshops took place in the form of a teen drop-in night, where youth could participate in improvisation games from both music and theatre practices.[8] Community members in the program participated in games typically used as exercises for theatre and music students to improvise. Caines found that improvisation across music and theatre share many qualities despite being different disciplines.[3] Project participants explored personal and community development, working between individuals with cultural differences, methods for modelling social equality, and ways to create new types of cutting-edge art.[3]
Publications[edit]
- Heble, Ajay; Caines, Rebecca, eds. (2015). The improvisation studies reader : spontaneous acts. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415638715. Search this book on
- Caines, Rebecca (2008). Troubling spaces : the politics of "New" community-based guerrilla performance in Australia. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales (Ph.D. Dissertation). Search this book on
- Caines, Rebecca (2016). "Community Sound [e]Scapes: Improvising Bodies and Site/Space/Place in New Media Audio Art". In Siddall, Gillian; Waterman, Ellen. Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. doi:10.1215/9780822374497-004. Search this book on
References[edit]
- ↑ Siddall, Gillian; Waterman, Ellen (2016). Negotiated Moments: Improvisation, Sound, and Subjectivity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0822360827. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Media, Art, and Performance Faculty". University of Regina. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Caines, Rebecca. "Onward Willow Improvisation Games 2010: A Critical Reflection on Playing Across Disciplines". www.improvcommunity.ca. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ↑ Heble, Ajay; Caines, Rebecca, eds. (2015). The improvisation studies reader : spontaneous acts. London ; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415638715. Search this book on
- ↑ Caines, Rebecca (2008). Troubling spaces : the politics of "New" community-based guerrilla performance in Australia. Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales (Ph.D. Dissertation). Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Media, Art, and Performance- Creative Technologies". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Community Sound [e]Scapes". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Improvisation Games for Teens". Retrieved 7 March 2018.
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