Real Time, Virtual Space, Live Theatre

HELEN VARLEY JAMEISON, 2008.
“Real Time, Virtual Space, Live Theatre”
From The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, ed. Brennan and Ballard, 2008.

People acting and play fighting.

Helen Varley Jameison discusses the development cyberformance (a live performance event that involves some form of networking) in relation to her own theatre practice. Varley Jameison considers what makes cyberformance unique – the ‘risks’ of live theatre and the importance of blips, delays and glitches that “playfully interrogate complex notions of time, space and presence”.

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