Multimedia Dramaturgy

The course is divided into: a general part relating to the theoretical horizon of new digital media in relation to the arts in the transition from the avant-garde to contemporary technology (see: Balzola Monteverdi, Le arti multimediali digitali), and a specific part identifying projects, proposals and theatre practices that have used video and interactive systems on stage from the 1980s to the present day including the virtuale stage followin the book by A. Pinotti Alla soglia dlel'immagine. The path is articulated following two reference volumes: A. Balzola, La nuova scena elettronica (Dino Audino editore) and A. Monteverdi, Leggere uno spettacolo multimediale (Dino Audino editore). The comparison with the volumes will allow to focus on some specific chapters of the so-called Intermediate Theatre, from Marcelì Antunez Roca to Motus to Giacomo Verde to Robert Lepage to Konic, verifying the three phases of the interactive theatre and the so-called augmented theatre. From videomapping to networked theatre, the course will take the most exhaustive possible look at the concept of digital liveness from a transversal methodological perspective, touching on sociological and media studies. Talks with the protagonists of the technological scene are planned.