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TRANSMEDIA ARTS
SPEAKERS: Miriam Felton-Dansky, Bard College Annandale; Seda Ilter, University of London
In this dialogue Miriam Felton-Dansky and Seda Ilter will draw on their research on performance, media, and digitality to explore what new terms and ideas we need to capture the ongoing shifts of theatrical practice and the scope of digital and hybrid dramaturgies.
This event is part of the Symposium Viral Theatres: Pandemic Past/Hybrid Futures, which is taking place at the Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin and online from April 28- April 30, 2022..
Miriam Felton-Dansky is Associate Professor of Theater & Performance at Bard College, and Director of Bard's Undergraduate Theater & Performance Program. She is the author of Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and essays in Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, Theater, TDR, and Artforum.com, among other publications.
Seda Ilter is a Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. Seda is Programme Director of MA Dramaturgy, and teaches in BA Theatre & Drama, BA Theatre Studies & English, MA Text and Performance, and MA Dramaturgy. Her research interests include theoretical and aesthetic implications of technology and media culture in theatre, dramaturgy and new writing. Seda is also interested in translating and directing. She directed Tim Crouch’s The Author in Istanbul (2015). Seda’s monograph Mediatized Dramaturgy: Evolution of Playtexts in the Media Age was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
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If you have any questions, please contact Magda Romanska at magda@metalab.harvard.edu
The Viral Theatres-Research Project, a collaboration of the Free University, the Humboldt University and Bard College Berlin, is funded by the VolkswagenFoundation. The Opening Events are co-financed by the research project “Extended Audiences” in the Research Area “Travelling Matters” at the EXC2020 “Temporal Communities” and take place with kind support from the metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin, the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard’s Transmedia Arts Seminar, and the Open Society University Networks.
