Researcher
Stage Designer
- Email: iulia.gherghescu@unatc.ro
- Mobile phone: +40724537075
- CINETic Lab: Virtual Set Design and Augmented Reality
- Other affiliations: Master’s in Art of Game Design at UNATC; National University of Arts in Bucharest (Associate Professor)
Academic interests
- Interdisciplinary performance design
- Advanced set and costume designs for performance art
- Interactive set design and installation design
- The relation between virtual environments and physical space and sets
Research Project
My doctoral research project was intended becoming a critical review of the new technologies and the alternative approaches used in the creative process by the performance designers. It becomes necessary to understand scenography as an artistic expression that uses transdisciplinary strategies in the design of the performative spaces. The general analysis relates specifically to the performance space but touches the subject of various manipulations of space and scenographic art in connection with other artistic disciplines and in different contexts imposed by unconventional art forms. The purpose is to find those approaches and research tools that would allow studying scenography as a field in transformation and one that transforms itself, and secondly, is suggesting a reconceptualization by encouraging stronger links between theory and practice.
Background
I hold a Bachelor degree in Scenography from National University of Arts in Bucharest and an MFA in Design and Technical Production – set design from Tulane University, USA. I wrote my master’s thesis on Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot with the title “The void on stage – shaping the emptiness”. I also studied anthropology at the University of Bucharest – The Faculty of Sociology and Social Work.
Publications
- Gherghescu, Iulia (2018) Interactive spaces. A change in scenographic aesthetics.
- 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing – ENTERTAIN – Intelligent Systems in Entertainment, Cluj-Napoca
- Gherghescu, Iulia (2015)The void on stage – shaping the emptiness. Designing for Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, MFA thesis, Tulane University, USA
Projects
- Video mapping in scenography, workshop (2017)
- Hackthon The Cave (2017)
- Lifespike, light and video mapping installation, Amural Festival (2017)
- Mult zgomot pentru nimic by W. Shakespeare, Teatrul Tineretului, Piatra Neamț (2018)
- Fluturii sunt liberi by Leonard Gershe Teatrul Excelsior, Bucharest (2017)
- Melcul by Lia Bugnar, directed by Lia Bugnar, Teatrul Metropolis, Bucharest (2018)
- Aniversarea by Jereon Van Der Berg, Teatrul Mihai Eminescu, Botoșani (2016)
- Indianul vrea in Bronx by Israel Horovitz, ARCUB Bucharest (2015)
- D’ale Lolelor/ Ein bett voller Urzeln after Dave Freeman, Teatrul Național Radu Stanca – Secția Germană, Sibiu (2015)
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, Lupin Theatre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (2014)
- Doamna de turtă dulce by Neil Simon, Teatrul Radu Stanca, Sibiu (2011)
- Îmi place cum miroşi by Neil Simon, Teatrul Radu Stanca, Sibiu (2011)
- Tarelkin by A.V. Suhovo-Kobilin, Teatrul Metropolis, Bucharest (2009)