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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: March 1, 2002
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