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New Media Dramaturgy : Performance, Media and New-Materialism /

This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media...

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Main Authors: Eckersall, Peter
Corporate Authors: SpringerLink Online service
Group Author: Grehan, Helena; Scheer, Edward
Published: Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: London :
Publication Dates: 2017.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: New Dramaturgies
Subjects:
Culture > Study and teaching
Performing Arts
Cultural and Media Studies
Contemporary Theatre
Theatre Direction and Production
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55604-2
Summary: This book illuminates the shift in approaches to the uses of theatre and performance technology in the past twenty-five years and develops an account of new media dramaturgy (NMD), an approach to theatre informed by what the technology itself seems to want to say. Born of the synthesis of new media and new dramaturgy, NMD is practiced and performed in the work of a range of important artists from dumb type and their 1989 analog-industrial machine performance pH, to more recent examples from the work of Kris Verdonck and his A Two Dogs Company. Engaging with works from a range of artists and
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (XI, 236 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9781137556042
Index Number: PN1560
CLC: J809.565
Contents: 1. Cue Black Shadow Effect: The New Media Dramaturgy Experience -- 2. The Virtual Machine: Projection in the Theatre -- 3. Organised Light and Useful Lumens in Environmental Video Projection: Or the Meaning of Light -- 4. The Theatre of Atmospheres -- 5. Robots: Asleep, Awake, Alone, and in Love -- 6. The Theatrical Superfield: On Soundscapes and Acoustic Dramaturgy -- 7. XD: Reproducing Technological Experience -- 8. Play/Pause, FF/Rewind, End. Machine Times, End Times: Theatre, Live Film, and Video -- Bibliography -- Index.-.

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