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STORIFY

Hi folks, Here’s a link to the Storify for the conference: sfy.co/gMkk I clustered it by sessions (seemed the most intuitive), but let me know if I put anyone in the wrong place! I couldn’t track down GoogleDocs/notepads for several … Continue reading

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Publishing performance research in a digital age

I propose a session on ways to publish theatre and performance research in a digital age, exploring and brainstorming various options. This could range from the plays themselves to academic research to multi-media ebooks and archives.

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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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Make: A THATCamp Performing Arts Response to the AAAS Report

Recent high-profile reports from both Harvard University and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences suggest that the humanities as an academic discipline is under siege.  The most eye-catching statistic from Harvard's report notes that the number of humanities majors … Continue reading

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Creating, Publishing, and Evaluating Virtual Performance Venues

I propose a discussion on the possibilities and challenges of incorporating virtually reconstructed performance venues into scholarly research, cultural heritage management, and performance practices. I am trained as a literature and performance studies scholar and have just begun using Sketchup to … Continue reading

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Proposing a Session: Why and How-To

Proposing sessions before THATCamp Performing Arts starts is one of the most important things you can do as a participant as it sets the table for the topics we will be discussing and gives us material to create the schedule … Continue reading

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THATCamp Performing Arts is Full!

That’s it!! We’ve just completely filled up for THATCamp Performing Arts on June 20 and 21. So glad that so many people are interested and that such a wide range of personalities and interests are represented in the registrants. The … Continue reading

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Community and Network Building between DH & Performing Artists

Today’s ever-growing interest in digital humanities research and teaching has coincided with an increased desire by performing artists to learn about appropriate digital tools, applications, and software in order to engage them into their performances. Our goal is to have … Continue reading

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