Chris Van Goethem Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) Erasmushogeschool Brussel, Belgium
Chris Van Goethem started his career as a stage manager and travelled around Europe with a multitude of Belgian companies. Later on he started to work as consultant and educator in technical theatre.
He teaches History of Technical Theatre and Practice based Research skills at the Technical Theatre Design department of the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) at the Erasmus University college Brussels. He is part of the PAKT research group (formerly Expertise Centre for technical theatre https://www.podiumtechnieken.be/en), researches the history of technical theatre and was part of multiple international research projects on the subject like the “Changement a vue” on the history of stage mechanics and “Fading lights” on the history of stage lighting. He lead the Canon I project that mapped historical-technical information through Open Data concepts that are visualised and initiated the Canon II project. He is member of the board of STEPP, the Belgian professional organization of technicians and long time OISTAT member.