Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A new stage age: why theatres should embrace digital technology
guardian.co.uk: "There was a time, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when 'multimedia' was a real buzzword. In practice, what this meant was a few video screens dotted around a venue, merely the borrowed trappings of technology rather than a geniune attempt to make art or engage audiences in new ways. But the growth of pervasive media and digital technologies is offering theatre-makers and audiences unprecedented new challenges and opportunities. Unlike multimedia theatre, these technologies are not a passing fad; in fact they are as likely to have an impact on our theatregoing and theatre-making as the Oyster card, Facebook or mobile phones have had on our everyday lives."
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This article couldn't rain more true here at CMU. With the addition of a media design major, next year not only is it currently relevant, but obviously important enough for CMU to approach creating a major designed around this and the future technology.
I look forward to how technology will continue to effect the arts, and people in general. I cant wait for ALICE next year, when all of this tehnology and media will come together and be CMU's first real media show.
Competitions like this help incite the start of something big. Because they are using the nature of competition plus the nature of whatever it is that they're trying to promote, we get some pretty neat things in return. As time goes on, if productions don't use technology fast enough, then they might become obsolete. That doesn't mean that they can't still put on great Theatre; although it might be more expensive at that moment, overtime, it will certainly pay off.
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