ABSTRACT
We coined the term new media dramaturgy (NMD) to investigate the transformations underway in live performance in relation to and in response to new media and vice versa. New media constitutes a turn to visuality, intermediality, and dialectical moves between performance and installation arts that show these expressions embodied or visualized in live and virtual performance spaces. We are interested in how these expressions might be understood compositionally and dramaturgically. This is a field of performance that is situated inbetween theatre, dance, music, and visual arts. In this project we engage with a range of works by artists and companies such as: dumb type, the iCinema project, Back to Back Theatre, Kris Verdonck and A Two Dogs Company, Kornél Mundruczó, and Hotel Modern. New media dramaturgy is a concept linking dramaturgical innovations in the globally distributed field of contemporary theatre with theories and practices in media/visual arts.
