Performance + Technology Seminar is an online graduate research studio course that will be offered during an intensive 4 week session (May 10–June 3). 

Course Information

Course #: ACCAD 7893
Class #: 22917
Credits: 3 credit hours
Instructor: Norah Zuniga-Shaw
Format: Online
Synchronous Meetings: Wed 12:00pm - 3:00pm + other co-work sessions TBD with students
All other work is asynchronous on Carmen

Technology today can no longer be understood as a tool complementing non-technological “others” but has become fully integrated in our lives, including ways of making and of making sense of performance. Understanding technology’s contribution to theatre, dance and performance, therefore, requires comprehending what technology does to creating, presenting, experiencing, remembering and interpreting performances. During the month of May for this fully online Performance + Technology seminar, we will immerse ourselves in reading, viewing, reflecting, and writing on these timely subjects relevant to a broad range of disciplinary concerns and interests.
 

The special one-time offering will include asynchronous reading, viewing, writing and researching as well as synchronous online co-work sessions and dialog. Each week students will receive readings, viewings, and practices on key themes at the intersection of performance and technology. These offerings will seed further research conducted by students into areas of particular interest for their own areas of inquiry. We will share ideas and discuss resources during our weekly 3 hour synchronous seminar and asynchronously throughout the week on Carmen Discussion Threads, and contributing to a collective literature review. We will also explore various forms of writing in and about and through performance. Final projects will be student-led.