Category Archives: Session Proposals

Hybrid/online performance pedagogy

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Carrie O'Dell

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

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Andrew Horwitz

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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Intersection of Digital Humanities and Cinema/Media Studies

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Roxanne Shirazi

I’d like to propose a session to bring together any cinema studies people who are at this THATCamp, to explore how digital humanities methods are being used and supported in the analysis of film/video. Some people refer to it as … Continue reading →

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Socially Performing Media

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Natalia de Campos

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?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Kathryn Jones

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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Performing the ideal performing arts digital archive

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Leanora Lange

Performing arts digital archives–you’ve seen them, you’ve heard of some amazing ones, maybe you’re working on or with one now. What are the most important pieces of a performing arts digital archive? What should one look like? What can they … Continue reading →

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

Posted on June 20, 2013 by Douglas Howe

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

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Angus Grieve-Smith

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

Posted on June 19, 2013 by eero

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

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Manuel Betancourt

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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