The Medium (Media) is the Message
Interactive Theatre Brainstorming Outline
Research Questions:
1.What can’t we do in the theatre?
2. What do we want to do?
3. Do we want the audience to have voluntary / involuntary control in the interaction?
-How do we get them involved without voting?
4. How does technology change the theatre process (especially the playwrighting process)?
5. How much interaction does the audience want in a theatrical setting?
Aesthetics of Interactive Theatre:
1. VR Sets
2. Immersive Theatre Space
3. Dynamic Lighting and ambient sound
4. Multi-Sensory Cues (sound, temp, etc)
5. Audience driven exploration / journey
-Free exploration of space
- Volunteer “destiny”, not script
6. Plot associated with objects
7. Multiple POV
8. Iconic Plot (murder mystery, myth, etc)
Techniques of Interactive Theatre:
1.VR
2. Tracking eye vision
3. Cameras backstage (Multilayered Theatre)
4. Cameras on Body
5. Virpups
-Audience face on Virpup
- Virpup talking back, creating own presence
6. Cell phones
7. Audience Representative election
8. Physical Control over actors (electricity, etc)
9. Telepresence
-possible audience created sets, costumes, etc. before show begins
10. Medical / legal techniques (polygraph, heart monitor, breathing monitor, blood pressure, etc)
11. MOCAP
12. Synthetic Interview
13. Robotics
Reference Material:
1.Plays:
-The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard
- The Ride Across
- The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
- BAM Next Wave Fest (www.bam.org)
- Gertrude Stein Rep (www.gerstein.org/firsthome.html)
2. Essays and Critical Work:
-The Art-Work of the Future by Richard Wagner
-An End to Masterpieces by Antonin Artaud
-The Variety Theater by F. T. Marinetti
- The Futurist Synthetic Theater by F. T. Marinetti
- The Futurist Cinema by F. T. Marinetti
- Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality (www.artmuesum.net/w2vr/contents.html)
- Performance Art by Rose Lee Goldberg
- Puppets, Masks, and Performing Objects edited by John Bell
3. Improv Theory