54-501 Digital Devising

4 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This class explores the history, methods, and futures of ensemble and coauthored devised performance creation with a focus on new skills and concepts of the digital and postinternet. After a brief overview of historical companies, artists and concepts, we will develop skill sets and frameworks for creating work in a lab setting using the formal aspects of digital and postinternet performance. Some of the frameworks included are analog staging of online interface or structures aesthetic references to tools of online content creation embodying aspects of connectivity, isolation, and economics and the use of algorithms and code to control the performance and create performance texts EckertManson, 2018. We will use the development of Big Art Groups Gun Play which stages the complex web of online and realworld narratives around the gun debate as a case study.

Prerequisites: none listed

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