The Two Thousand + symposium is an annual research event, which has been running since 2006 at the School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen’s University Belfast.
The symposium was initiated by Dr Franziska Schroeder who had identified a lack in theoretical engagement in the area of music performance and new technologies. After the completion of her PhD in 2006 Dr Schroeder commenced this theoretical one-day event that would allow performance practitioners from diverse areas such as music, sonic arts, dance, theatre, new media, and architecture to discuss a range of topics on performance informed by new technologies.
The symposium has been running alongside the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, the longest running new music festival in Ireland, and has included keynote speakers such as:
Two Thousand + Six
Professor Susan Broadhurst (Brunel University, London)
Ben Watson (Wire contributor, Trotskyist and Zappaphile)
Two Thousand + Seven
Professor George Lewis (Columbia University)
Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)
Two Thousand + Nine
Professor Steve Dixon (Brunel University)
Two Thousand + Ten
Professor Georgina Born (Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music at Cambridge University)
David Borgo (Associate Professor UC San Diego)