Being and performance in virtual worlds.
A research project on the state of the theatrical event in an age of virtuality.
Six questions in search of answers.
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What is a virtual world and what are its capacities?
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What does it mean to perform in a virtual world?
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What does it mean to “be there” in a performance in a virtual world?
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What is the material status of being in performances in virtual worlds?
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How are virtual practices changing the state of theatrical performance?
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What is the ethical state of performance in virtuality?
PROJECT SECTION #1
YURIWAKA: a VR adaptation of a 16th century kowakamai dance text.
Translation into English of a 16th century text from the Japanese recitative dance form Kowakamai. The text will be adapted into a mixed media VR installation, which will have at its core, the problem of “being there”.
PROJECT SECTION #2
FIELD NOTES: reflections on VR and AR performance projects.
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Discordance – Unwired Dance
VRASA – DACHHU
PROJECT SECTION #3
WORLD MAPPING: tracking performance worlds.
Part of this research project involves creating a database of performance worlds that exist or once existed.
PROJECT SECTION #4
PUBLICATIONS: outputs from the research
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LATEST ARTICLES
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“Soultopia” by Saeborg
I want to share a few thoughts on a VR performance I saw recently called: Soultopia. It was created by Saeborg, an artist whose performances often use latex suits and large latex inflatables in the […]
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0. Ground
One of the most well-known lines in Shakespeare’s plays is Bernardo’s question at the beginning of Hamlet: “Who’s there?” Who is that ‘who’ and where is that ‘there’? It is a doorway onto doubt. But […]
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