This book explores the evolution of theatre and performance technology over the past 25 years, introducing new media dramaturgy (NMD). It examines the interplay between technology and performance through the works of artists like dumb type, Kris Verdonck, and others, highlighting various innovative performative technologies.
Acclaimed photographer William Yang has captured the zeitgeist like no-one else, providing a very personal insight into the evolution of Mardi Gras, the spectre of AIDS, Sydney's theatrical and social scenes, and changing notions of 'belonging' in multicultural Australia. In this groundbreaking book, featuring 100 images from William Yang's personal archive, Helena Grehan and Edward Scheer explore Yang's self-portraiture across photography, performance and documentary.
Klich and Scheer describe new and emergent forms including video performance, digital theatre, interactive dramaturgies and immersive environments, presenting an up-to-date analysis of the evolving relationship between technology and aesthetics in contemporary performance culture.
Scenario is the world's first 360-degree, 3D, interactive cinematic fairytale. Incorporating some elements from the notorious Fritzl case in Austria, the audience and humanoid characters interact to help Elizabeth K and her four children, who are all imprisoned in a basement, discover possible ways to escape.
100 Years of Cruelty brings together responses to the Artaud question from some of the leading contemporary scholars working in the humanities today. The essays cover a wide variety of topics in opening the Artaud question to the disciplines - and the demarcations upon which so much knowledge and art practice is defined. They are intended as an affront to conservative thought, as an attack on clinical reason and as an open challenge to the corporate university.