Working Group within IETM : Staging New Media – why technology questions dramaturgy and changes the status of the audience

Moderator: Hilde Teuchies
Speakers: Aylin Kalem (Techne, Digital Performance Platform, Istanbul) and Eric Joris (Crew, Antwerp), Armando Menicacci (Anomos/Mediadanse), Oğuzhan Özcan (YTU)

Focus of the debate is the use of new technology as core-element/starting point in theatre and the impact on the creative process.

Topics to be addressed :
- Are interactive installations really interactive?
- When does new technology in theatre become more than just a sophisticated tool for illustration?
- The transformation of the audience from on-looker to ‘immersant' / user / protagonist
- Interactivity vs narrativity
- reality as a key dramatical component?
- thematising the failures: ‘Je ne peux plus connecter'

(open to public)