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Eric Joris | |
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| Born | Belgium |
| Occupation(s) | Multidisciplinary artist and theatre director |
Eric Joris is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist and theatre director. In 1991 he founded CREW Eric Joris.
Eric Joris studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) (BE); the Brussels RITS Institute for Media and Film; languages, art history and economy at Sorbonne, (Paris); Cambridge University (United Kingdom); Heidelberg (Collegium Palatinum); and Tokyo (ETP fundings by European Government).
Joris is a multimedia artist with an initial education in filmmaking, covering many areas such as industrial design, graphic design, comics, visual arts, installation art, and performance art. Under his direction CREW Eric Joris adamantly tries to make performances at the melting point between live art and digital media.
He develops methods for connecting state-of-the-art technology with artistic forms, often exploring and questioning the human senses, particularly our perception of sound, movement and space. His company CREW Eric Joris generates live-art projects that can be described as immersive theatre.
The works of Joris are frequently co-produced and/or sponsored by pioneering institutes for technology, such as Fraunhofer Society and Max Planck Society.
CREW Eric Joris participated in the program 2020 3D Media, which has the backing of the European Commission. CREW is also artistic partner in the EU-funded multidisciplinary research consortium Dreamspace, which develops tools that enable creative professionals to combine live performances, video and computer generated imagery in real time.
Joris has received prizes and fellowships from the French and Flemish government, as well as from various foundations.
Joris is a mentor of the Forecast Platform 2015-2016, an international platform that promotes emerging talents.
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