Digital Scenography
Practice-based Research
in the Performing Arts

I am Dr. Andrew Sempere and this website documents my academic work in technology, narrative, performance and the arts. I am from the US but live and work primarily in Switzerland. My PhD is from EPFL (2015), my Masters is from the MIT Media Lab (MS 2003) and my undergraduate degree is from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA 2001).



Classes

BExx: New Technologies for Stage Production
Feb 27-Mar 1, 2024
die Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB (Bern University of the Arts)



BE18: New Technologies for Stage Production
April 26-29, 2022
die Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB (Bern University of the Arts)


LM0? -
December 14-17, 2020
University of the Performing Arts of Western Switzerland
HETSR/La Manufacture


BE15: New Technologies for Stage Production
September 1-4, 2020
die Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB (Bern University of the Arts)


LM0?-2019: Digital Scenography and Scale
December 9-12, 2019
University of the Performing Arts of Western Switzerland
HETSR/La Manufacture


LM02-2018: Introduction to Digital Scenography
[Photos]
October 2-5 / 8-10 2018
University of the Performing Arts of Western Switzerland
HETSR/La Manufacture


LM04-2017: Introduction to Digital Scenography
[Photos]
University of the Performing Arts of Western Switzerland
HETSR/La Manufacture

LM03-2017: Introduction to Digital Scenography
[Photos]
September 25-28 / October 2-6 2017
University of the Performing Arts of Western Switzerland
HETSR/La Manufacture

Workshops

Digital Ghost Stories
(HEAD) Geneva University of Art and Design
May-June 2016

Introduction to Computational Thinking
Aarhus University
Digital Living Research Commons
September 7+8, 2017


Invited Lectures

Direct Encounters with History
Dec 2016 - SMU Texas

Art / Design / Research
2013 - Geneva University of Art and Design (HEAD)


Research Projects

DS/PS: Digital Scenography / Performing Space
Nov 2015-May 2016
[photos] [website] [HETSR page (français)]

HotelCity / CinemaMutation
Sept 2015-Feb 2016
[photos] [website] [HETSR page (français)]

SINLAB
Jan 2012 - Dec 2015
[website] [PhD work]