Mapping Intermediality in Performance (Amsterdam University Press - MediaMatters)

This insightful book explores the relationship between theater and digital culture. The authors show that the marriage of traditional performance with new technologies leads to an upheaval of the implicit “live” quality of theatre by introducing media interfaces and Internet protocols, all the while blurring the barriers between theater-makers and their audience. "This volume examines afresh the impact upon acting and performance of digital technologies. It is concerned with how digital culture combines the traditional 'liveness' of theatre with media interfaces and internet protocols. The time and space of the 'here and now' are both challenged and adapted, just as barriers between theatre-makers and the 'experiencers' of events are broken down. Today many of us are everyday players performing the interconnectedness of digital culture and a key aim of the book is to unpack the multiple interrelations within the landscape of contemporary performance. Access to a range of 'instances' (The Builders Association, Castellucci, Castorf, Gob Squad, Lepage, Second Life and VJing) is through 'portals' which afford perspectives on the main characteristics of theatre and performance in the digital age." --Cover Contents......Page 6 How to Approach This Book......Page 10 Introduction: Prospective Mapping and Network of Terms......Page 14 Portal: Performativity and Corporeal Literacy......Page 28 Node: Modes of Experience......Page 46 Instances......Page 50 Portal: Time and Space......Page 84 Node: Dimensions......Page 98 Instances......Page 102 Portal: Digital Culture and Posthumanism......Page 124 Node: Actuality-Virtuality......Page 142 Instances......Page 144 Portal: Networking......Page 172 Node: Inter-relations......Page 186 Instances......Page 192 Portal: Pedagogic Praxis......Page 218 Retrospection: The Pre- and Proto-digital......Page 238 Notes......Page 260 Cited Works......Page 268 Contributors......Page 284 Index......Page 294 Edited By Sarah Bay-cheng...[et Al.]. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 267-281) And Index.