On the border between performance, science and the digital: The embodied orrery

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Notes on contributors

Kurt Vanhoutte is Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Visual Arts Criticism at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, where he helped to establish and currently co-coordinates a master's programme in Film and Theatre Studies. Vanhoutte is founding member and spokesperson of The Research Centre for Visual Poetics (www.visualpoetics.be). His research investigates processes of intermediality that have emerged under the cultural and technological conditions of modernity and late modernity. Between February and August 2015 he will be a Visiting Scholar at the Centre Alexandre Koyré/CNRS in Paris in order to investigate science performance in modernity.

Charlotte Bigg is a historian of science at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, France. She has published widely on the social and cultural history of the physical and astronomical sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work focuses on the elaboration of optical instruments and visual cultures in scientific spaces and their communication with a range of scientific and popular audiences through devices such as panoramas, planetariums, exhibitions or lectures. She teaches at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.