THEATRE AND MULTIMEDIA

The course aims to illustrate the language and the basic techniques of digital performance, with specific references to digital creativity and digital storytelling.

The Keywords of the course will be: the relationship between video and stage, the difference between real space and virtual space, the emerging of augmented stage, the concept of interactive performance. A specific in-depth analysis will be dedicated to Progetto Rooms of Motus, such as example of ‘cinematic’ dramaturgy.

A Digital Theatre (3 CFU)

Texts:

- A. Pizzo, Neodrammatico digitale. Scena multimediale e racconto interattivo, Torino, Accademia University Press, 2013, pp. 217;

- J. Malvezzi, Remedi-Action. Dieci anni di videoteatro italiano, Milano, Postmediabooks, 2015, pp. 111.

B Motus’ Rooms: how Cinema (re)duplicates Theatre (3 CFU)

Video:

- Motus, Twin Rooms (2002)

Bibliography:

- E. Casagrande, D. Nicolò, Io vivo nelle cose, Milano, Ubulibri, 2011, pp. 9-177.

- L. Pernice, Motus. La vertigine multimediale, Catania, Villaggio Maori Edizioni, 2016, pp. 200.