The first ETC casebook Digital Theatre. A Casebook is about sharing knowledge with the creative community; it is an invitation for artists, scientists, theatre professionals, and cultural and societal decision makers to learn from our experiences.
Attached, the white paper Drama goes digital vs Theatre invades digital presents recommendations that have been identified for publicly funded theatres, policymakers and funders on the local, national and European level to tackle challenges for theatres while addressing the digital transformation.
Digital Theatre. A Casebook offers guidance through hands-on examples taken from the daily work of researching, testing and implementing new technologies in theatre. Published by the European Theatre Convention, it presents findings and reflections for the creative community based on the two-year project European Theatre Lab: Drama goes digital, an artistic and international cross-sectoral collaboration between major European public theatres and scientific institutions.
“‘Digital Theatre. A Casebook’ is about sharing knowledge with the creative community; it is an invitation for artists, scientists, theatre professionals and cultural and societal decision makers to learn from our experiences.”
– Heidi Wiley, ETC Executive Director
Digital transformation changes the way we produce, distribute and circulate content – including theatrical works. Having worked on a variety of issues such as cross-border mobility, multilingualism, peer learning and new dissemination methods, ETC combines its experience regarding artistic work with institutional and structural requirements for the digital change.
Enclosed in the casebook, the white paper "Drama goes digital vs Theatre invades digital" presents suggestions and recommendations identified for publicly-funded theatres, policymakers and funders at a local, national and European level to tackle challenges for theatres while addressing digital transformation.
Read the articles from the casebook
-
Can Digital Communication Be an Aesthetic Empowerment of the Audience?
Peter Weibel, director of the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe (ZKM), makes the following prediction: “Today we applaud the robots. In thirty years, the robots will applaud us.” -
The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb Stages Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt
The Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb and Det Norske Theatret from Oslo created a co-production project entitled Make distance non-existent. The project involved staging two national classic modernist plays at a theatre in the other nation. -
Do you speak Tech? Report From an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Partnership
Report from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural partnership More recent studies from the social sciences showed that ‘familiar ground may not be the best place to cultivate creativity’. -
Get Out of The Box: New Business Models and International Co-operation
We are investigating the theatre of the future, its artists and possibilities, guided by the idea that the future belongs to co-operation; co-operation of different theatres and companies; countries and professions. -
Where Do We Go From Here
After the euphoria of getting a project funded by the European Commission, it does not take long for reality to set in and for all partners to be reminded of the objectives and timing of a project’s phases. -
What Theatres Expect From Digitality and What Digitality Expects From Theatres
Technology is pervasive in today’s society. Code = culture. Algorithms define our way of life. -
Why Every Theatre Needs a Digital Strategy
In a time of shrinking public funding, we want to help the organisations we invest in to take advantage of the opportunities provided by new technologies – and the data associated with those technologies – to understand more about their audiences. -
Digital Theatre. A Casebook
ForewordSeptember 2018 -
Virtual Meets Real: The Synchronisation of AR and Live Acting
We deal with machines constantly in our daily life. Algorithms record and answer our questions. Where does the space of contemporary theatre fit in here? -
How to Breathe Soul Into a Machine! A Plea for More Digital Tenderness
The digital age! If only it would just disappear? Can we turn it off? Real people want to see real people! -
Kinetics of Sound
Kinetics of Sound takes its starting point in an ordinary theatre exchange programme in which two modern classics, Peer Gynt by Ibsen and Kraljevo by Krleza, are staged as ordinary theatrical productions. -
Media Artists Working with Cultural Institutions: Opportunities and Challenges
Stage Your City is a participative and site-specific theatre research project using digital media. With our partner theatres in Nancy, Oslo, Karlsruhe and Tbilisi, we developed a play using installation,augmented reality on mobile phones, virtual reality. -
Move the Sound! Directing With New Technology
For me, as a director, it is important that the artistic idea and concept emerge from the story being told. Therefore, I approached this project with scepticism and curiosity: Which technological instruments might bolster the artistic concept? -
Decide How to Decide. Managing Processes in International Interdisciplinary Projects.
From observing the creation process of pilot projects and Waag’s expertise in (social) innovation, I would like to contribute some practical lessons for managing processes in international interdisciplinary artistic projects.
