Introduction to encountering the digital in performance : deployment | engagement | trace
- Submitting institution
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 33-15-1791
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1080/10486801.2017.1343248
- Title of journal
- Contemporary Theatre Review
- Article number
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- First page
- 311
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- ISSN
- 1048-6801
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2017.1343248
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This output consists of a co-edited Special Issue of the journal Contemporary Theatre Review (27:3) and a single-authored Introductory article which provides the conceptual and theoretical framework for the Special Issue.
The CTR Special Issue ‘Encountering the Digital in Performance: Deployment | Engagement | Trace’ (2017) was initiated and co-edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Andy Lavender and Eirini Nedelkopoulou. It resulted from the Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Working Group on Performance and New Technologies, which was initiated by Lavender and was later led by Nedelkopoulou and Chatzichristodoulou. The co-editors collaboratively designed a conceptual framework for critiquing and analysing theatre and performance in digital culture in order to study how changes in digitally enabled practices affect the ways we make, participate in, and think of performance. The framework pivoted around three main concepts, which are put forward as key to our encounters with performance through digital culture: Deployment, Engagement, and Trace. The co-editors commissioned, guided and edited new research articles and practice-as-research documents that coalesced under the main conceptual strands of their thesis, illuminating them in different ways. The Special Issue brings together six original research articles, including an article by each one of the co-editors, and three practice-research documents. Chatzichristodoulou’s research article frames the Special Issue by unpacking the conceptual framework through the key terms of ‘encounter’ and ‘digital’, as well as the three conceptual pivots of ‘deployment’, ‘engagement,’ and ‘trace’. The article traces synergies and connections between the various contributions to this Special Issue, in order to identify key trends in critical thinking and creative practice in relation to the place of theatre and performance in and through digital culture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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