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New Media Dramaturgy

Performance, Media and New-Materialism

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Peter Eckersall

    1. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

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  2. Helena Grehan

    1. Murdoch University , Perth, Australia

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  3. Edward Scheer

    1. School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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  • Identifies and examines changes to live performance occasioned by the rise of digital media in contemporary theatre aesthetics
  • Formulates a new framework for both analyzing and creating contemporary new media performance including multimedia theatre and dance, video performance and installation
  • Explores how the synthesis of new dramaturgy and new media has changed the experience of live arts for the spectator

Part of the book series: New Dramaturgies (ND)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Cue Black Shadow Effect: The New Media Dramaturgy Experience

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 1-23

  3. The Virtual Machine: Projection in the Theatre

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 25-53

  4. From Extreme Light to Total Darkness: The Dramaturgy of Organised Light

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 55-80

  5. The Theatre of Atmospheres

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 81-105

  6. Robots: Asleep, Awake, Alone, and in Love

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 107-134

  7. The Theatrical Superfield: On Soundscapes and Acoustic Dramaturgy

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 135-160

  8. XD: Reproducing Technological Experience

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 161-184

  9. Play/Pause, FF/Rewind. End. Machine Times, End Times: Theatre, Live Film and Video

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 185-208

  10. Post-NMD?

    • Peter Eckersall, Helena Grehan, Edward Scheer
    Pages 209-212

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 213-236
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About this book

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 companies including: Blast Theory, Olafur Eliasson, Nakaya Fujiko and Janet Cardiff, we see a range of extruded performative technologies operating overtly on, with and against human bodies alongside more subtle dispersed, interactive and experiential media.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Peter Eckersall

  • Murdoch University , Perth, Australia

    Helena Grehan

  • School of the Arts & Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Edward Scheer

About the authors

Peter Eckersall is Professor of Theatre at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York, USA. Recent publications include Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan: City, Body, Memory (2013). 

Helena Grehan is Professor in the School of Arts, Murdoch University, Australia. Her publications include Performance, Ethics and Spectatorship in a Global Age (2009) and most recently, William Yang: Stories of Love and Death (with Edward Scheer, 2016).

Edward Scheer is Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is author of The Infinity Machine (2010) and is a former President of Performance Studies international.

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