...Sarah Bay-Cheng This essay considers the impact of digital media and video recording on theater and performance criticism. Using the concept of telematic viewing, the essay argues for a new model of performance criticism and analysis based on reality television and a broader application of affect...

... and performed by Marina Abramović, Venice Biennale, 1997. Courtesy of Sean Kelly Gallery Sarah Bay-Cheng­ Theater Is Media Some Principles for a Digital Historiography of Performance All history is media. Perhaps a more familiar statement would be that all history is mediated...

... for “inoculating” the public against paranoia. © 2012 by Miriam Felton-Dansky 2012 Miriam Felton-Dansky­ Viral Performance Contagious Hoaxes in the Digital Public Sphere Media Virus In 1994, novelist and media scholar Douglas Rushkoff heralded the advent of a new phe- nomenon that he...

...Jennifer Buckley In this article, Jennifer Buckley investigates digital durational performances like Forced Entertainment's 12 a.m.: Awake & Looking Down and questions if and how media can feel like live theater and create community. She also discusses how social media platforms like Twitter...

... and Media Theatre and Performance in Digital Culture: From Simulation to Embeddedness by Matthew Causey 2006: Routledge Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance by Chris Salter 2010: mit Press The theater, if it is to survive, must do what it does best — what only it can...

... of digital media and related technolo- gies in theatrical performance and that are informed by and build upon earlier debates about liveness and presence8 — yet the question has been curiously sidestepped or simply untendered in such work. As a consequence, it doesn’t seem appropriate, for instance...

... ideas of the performances by various means—including architectures, human bodies, historical narratives, and digital technologies—to invoke past performances within the present. © 2020 by Nicholas Lowe 2020 Goat Island performance documentation archive curation hancock & kelly Augusto...

...-­gardes so they have a context for digital performance today? Or be presented with (reperformed) iconic queer theater works to make room for the next generation’s? What if the key to a sturdy and luminous future actually consists of revisiting the past? On the other hand, the creative visions...

... shaped by the assumption of a future online audience, they perform not only for the local crowd but for the anticipated digital mob. II. If you ask the mobsters themselves, the most essential audience of the flash mob is the public they surprise into stupefaction. One of Improv Everywhere’s...

... York : Routledge , 2018 Performance Documentation: The Context and Process of Digital Curating and Archiving , edited by Sant Toni , London : Bloomsbury Academic , 2017 © 2020 by Evan Hill 2020 Books Evan Hill Documentary Pragmatism; Or, How to Know How a Document Works...

... theater nor theory, but it generates both virtually. Numerous activities — digital, literary, and embodied — invoke theater but relate to the here and now in either wholly or partly virtual terms, including closet drama and impossible theaters like Ball’s, as well as social media performances...

... Invalid, 2020. 31 disability justice disability aesthetics disabled artists COVID-19 digital performance online performance accessibility care work ...

..., London, 2003. Photo: Hugo Glendinning Up Front Digital Feelings Miriam Felton-Dansky­ and Jacob Gallagher-­Ross Like its predecessor, the 2012 “Digital Dramaturgies” issue (Theater 42, no. 2), this spe- cial issue of Theater focuses on new forms of performance arising in response...

... and convenience when using virtual and automated digital surveillance tech- nologies to perform our communication, travel, and commercial transactions; what we do not see are the processes by which we receive (or do not receive) these goods and ser- vices. Contemporary surveillance theorists have identified...

... phonetics underscores her painful estrangement. Although the piece relies on digital delay technology, the human voice resonates in and above the soundscape with grace and haunting clarity. I spoke with Pamela Z after her performance in Montreal...

... fully understand. Even as we make more and more of ourselves available for others to see, we hide more and more of ourselves behind the delimited forms of communication enabled by digital interfaces. If we’re always being watched, and often watching, we’re always performing and often spectating...

...Matthew Wilson Smith Smith considers Robert Lepage’s recent high-tech production of Wagner’s Ring cycle at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, as a digital-age extension of the modernist aspiration—incited by Wagner—to create the total work of art. © 2012 by Matthew Wilson Smith 2012 Das Rheingold...

... performance digitally, interactively, and beyond the stage. It was conceived as a live, virtual cleansing of one’s digital life. “Clients” undergo data dialysis by monitoring the emotions associated with their online identities using body sensors and brain wave monitors during a livestreamed event...

...-­louis -­ck. 4. Philip Auslander, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (New York: Routledge, 2008), 19 – 20. 5. Sarah Bay-­Cheng, “Theater Is Media: Some Principles for a Digital Historiography of Performance,” Theater 42, no. 2 (2012): 27 – 41; Lisa Gitelman...

... plays of Molière s were of a little more interest, their performances would perhaps be better attended. Voltaire, Advice to a Journalist These words appear in a letter written in 1737 that opens the November 1744 issue of the Mercure de France.1 In a commentary addressed to the periodical s new...