Category Archives: Session: Talk

Hybrid/online performance pedagogy

I’d like to propose a conversation about using technology in the performing arts classroom, especially in relationship to playwriting and collaborative work. I recently taught a hybrid section of first-year writing and spent the semester looking for ways to create … Continue reading

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Re-Framing Performance in The Digital Age

How are new & emerging media, social media & the Internet changing the way we think about performance and spectatorship? How does it affect our pre-existing discipline categories and demand new vocabularies for creating, discussing and engaging with live performance?

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Socially Performing Media

We take as a premise that Social Media is a performance platform both for the new World Theatre and the Theatre of the World. Who are the new actors? What is the drama that they play? How different or similar … Continue reading

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Talk: Can Technology Help The Performing Arts Community Emerge From Our Bubble?

I was having coffee today with an entrepreneur whose start-up revolves around the performing arts. Although her background is in law and government she is passionate about the arts and determined not only to fight our thirty year audience decline- … Continue reading

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Will/Can/Should Theatre Join The Digital (R)Evolution?

For centuries, the conventional definition of theatre has been of an event occurring in real time in front of a live audience in a physical space. In the last decade alone, there have been hundreds of examples that have put … Continue reading

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Session proposal: Working with old data

Records of performances, going back to Aristophanes and beyond, are gradually being made available online.  Handwritten and printed scripts, scores, reviews and notes from before the digital age require different techniques to compile, archive, digitize, share and analyze. <a href="http://performingarts2013.thatcamp.org/files/2013/06/f16.highres.png"><img … Continue reading

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#ACTweets: Social Media in the Performing Arts Classroom

During the spring semester of 2013, three acting teachers at three different colleges linked their class discussions through Twitter under the hashtag #ACTweets. (The instructions for students can be found here.) The pedagogical experiment allowed students and teachers to directly … Continue reading

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Researching Drama: Marketing & Digital Resources

As a graduate student who works on twentieth century drama as well as fiction, I have had at times the daunting task of finding information on past productions that seemingly have no digital footprint. I am less interested in bemoaning … Continue reading

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The Visibility of the Digital Archivist

Extending the conversation on the new invisibility/visibility of the library in the digital age begun by Tom Scheinfeldt in Nobody Cares about the Library, we (Mary Isbell and I) would like to discuss if/how creating a digital archive requires the scholar to … Continue reading

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Digital Documentation of the Creative Process

Digital technologies and the Internet may be helpful in preserving the text of a play and/or the video of its performance to other generations to see and study. But what if we can have an idea of how the actors … Continue reading

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