MAHINDRA HUMANITIES CENTER: TRANSMEDIA ARTS SEMINAR

For the second year, metaLAB is partnering with the Mahindra Humanities Center to sponsor the Transmedia Arts Seminar, chaired by Magda Romanska and Hana Worthen. The seminar considers the intersection of contemporary art/theatre and new media technologies, taking up immersive, multisite, and networked modes of transmedia storytelling, performances instrumentalizing a range of live and digital platforms and formats, including social media, augmented and virtual reality, haptic and digital technology, visual and audio mapping, human/AI interaction, algorithms, and bodily and sensory enhancements.

For the 2021-22 academic year, all seminar meetings will take place as webinars on Zoom; for all details, see the schedule and registration links below.

TRANSMEDIA, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE FUTURE OF THEATRE Sarah Ellis, Royal Shakespeare Company, September 30, 2021, 5pm

DECENTRALIZED STORYTELLING – WHERE AI, THE BLOCKCHAIN, CODE, AND METAVERSE INTERSECT Lance Weiler, Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab, October 28, 2021, 5pm

FUTURESTAGE MANIFESTO: NEW SCENARIOS FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Members of the futureStage Research Group, November 19, 2021, 5pm

HETEROGLOSSIA AND INTELLIGIBILITY IN TRANSMEDIA THEATRE Kasia Lech, Canterbury Christ Church University and TheTheatreTimes.com, December 2, 2021, 5pm

TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING FOR REAL-LIFE REHEARSAL Robert Pratten, CEO and founder of Conducttr, February 24, 2022, 5pm

TEMPORAL COMMUNITIES AND TRANSMEDIALITY Doris Kolesch, Freie Universitët Berlin, Germany, March 31, 2022, 5 pm

Caroline Jones, MIT Department of Architecture, April 22, 2022, 5 pm WHAT IS TRANSMEDIA? PERSPECTIVES ON METAVERSE