CALL FOR PAPERS
THEATRE(S) IN THE AGE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES
Gramma
Journal of Theory and Criticism
Issue Number 10 (2002)
Aristotle University
At the turn of the twentieth century we can feel privileged as
humans to have at our service a series of scientific discoveries and
technological inventions that have unlocked for us the deepest secrets
of life and creation and which give us prospects of seemingly limitless
control over communication and genetic engineering.
This new sense of power and control over the future of life and
humanity is certainly not a pure triumph but a mixed blessing. And art
has been quick to confront this ambiguity. Benevolent representations
of science and technology mingle with darker representations of doom,
catastrophe, decay and desperation in various forms of art, in
particular theatre. Dramatists have observed, either sardonically or
with humour, the material and ethical changes brought to our lives
through recent advances in applied science and technology, but they
have also envisaged nightmares, atrocities and dystopias, many of which
have already been experienced in real life. At the same time the stage
has welcomed the facilities offered by the new technologies and is
exploring new notions and forms of representation, subjectivity,
mediation, etc.
The aim of Gramma's special issue is to raise provocative questions
about the complex variety of forms technologies have taken in the
theatre(s) and drama(s) of the new century. To this end the volume
invites papers on issues such as:
- Dramatic representations of science/technology in present-day life
- Ethical issues arising from the uninhibited use of
science/technology
- Science dystopias; the Frankenstein and other myths
- The theatrical body as cyborg - The body in the space of technology
- Technology in culture and gender representation
- Technological requirements in contemporary staging (Digital
Scenography, Televisual mise-en-scène, Hypertextual-Interactive Access
etc)
- The technologized stage and its consequences for the art of
representation
- Illusion, reality, virtuality in the new conception of dramatic
character and its (re)presentation(s) - The dominance of the
televisual
- Stage machinery and the promotion of the spectacular in drama -
Mediated/Televisual Performance, Digital Art
- Computer Modeling
Papers should not exceed the length of 5000 words (including footnotes
and bibliography). They should follow the MLA Handbook (fifth edition)
and should be submitted in double-spaced form (two hard copies and a
diskette) to the editors of the issue, Professors Savas Patsalidis and
Elizabeth Sakellaridou at the following address:
School of English
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
E-mail: spats@enl.auth.gr and esakel@enl.auth.gr
Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2001
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