Transmedia Arts Seminar
Transmedia Arts Seminar
The intersection of contemporary art/theatre and new media technologies in immersive, multisite, and networked modes of transmedia storytelling.- Type
- Web
- Time
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- Host
- Harvard
- Location
- Virtual

metaLAB (at) Harvard is partnering with the Mahindra Humanities Center to sponsor the Transmedia Arts Seminar, chaired by Magda Romanska. 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 on Zoom; for all details, see the schedule and registration links below. Previous seminars are now accessible with captions on YouTube.
Future Seminars:
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Doris Kolesch (Freie Universitët Berlin, Germany), in conversation with Ben Walmsley (Leeds University, U.K), April 28, 2022, 11 am
“Convening Post/Pandemic Audiences” -
David Harradine (Fevered Sleep / Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, U.K), in conversation with Fintan Walsh, (University of London, U.K.), April 29, 2022, 11 am
“Pandemic Grief and Other Digital Feelings” -
Vicky Angelaki (Mid-Sweden University, Sweden), in conversation with Christiane Kühl (doublelucky productions, Germany), April 29, 1 pm
“The Pandemic and the Anthropocene” -
Miriam Felton-Dansky (Bard College Annandale, U.S.A.), in conversation with Seda Ilter (Birkbeck, University of London, U.K.), April 30, 8:15 am
“From Mediaturgy to Virality - What Concepts Do We Need to Understand Post/Pandemic Performance?” -
Sarah Ellis (Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K.), Tina Lorenz (Staatstheater Augsburg, Germany), Björn Lengers (Cyberräuber, Germany), Chris Ziegler (movingimages.de, Germany), April 30, 9:30 am
Panel: “Building Virtual Stages - XR in Performance” -
Christian Rakow (Nachtkritik, Germany), Magda Romanska (metaLAB (at) Harvard), Ulf Otto (LMU, Germany), April 30, 11:30 am
Panel: “Theatre’s Hybrid Futures”
Past Seminars:
Available now with captions on YouTube:
2020-21 Seminars:
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Sarah Ellis (Royal Shakespeare Company, U.K.), September 30, 2021, 5 pm
“Transmedia, Technology, and the Future of Theatre” -
Lance Weiler (Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab, U.S.A.), October 28, 2021, 5 pm
“Decentralized Storytelling - Where AI, the Blockchain, Code, and Metaverse Intersect” -
Members of the futureStage Research Group, November 19, 2021, 5 pm
“futureStage Manifesto: New Scenarios for the Performing Arts” -
Kasia Lech (Canterbury Christ Church University and TheTheatreTimes.com, U.K.), December 2, 2021, 5 pm
“Heteroglossia and Intelligibility in Transmedia Theatre” -
Robert Pratten (CEO and founder of Conducttr, U.K.), February 24, 2022, 5 pm
“Transmedia Storytelling for Real-Life Rehearsal” -
Doris Kolesch (Freie Universitët Berlin, Germany), March 31, 2022, 5 pm
“Temporal Communities and Transmediality” -
Caroline Jones (MIT Department of Architecture, U.S.A.), April 28, 2022, 5 pm
“What is Transmedia? Perspectives on Metaverse”
2020-21 Seminars:
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Magda Romanska (Emerson College, U.S.A.), Oct 9, 5 pm
“Transmedia Dramaturgy of Pre- and Post-Pandemic Theatre” -
Francesca Ferrando (NYU, U.S.A.), October 23, 5 pm
“Covid19, TransMedia and the Art of Posthuman Existence” -
Joris Weijdom (HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Netherlands), November 19, 2020 at 5 pm
“Embodiment and Presence in Designing Performative Mixed-Reality Experiences” -
Agnieszka Jelewska & Michał Krawczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland), December 3, 2020, 5 pm
“Spectral storytelling. Social Engagement Through Technology in Traumatized Environments.” -
Krisztina Rosner (Meiji University, Japan), February 18, 2021, 5 pm
“Technology and Transmedia Dramaturgy in Contemporary Japanese Performing Arts” -
Lawrence Switzky (University of Toronto, Canada), March 23, 2021, 5 pm
“’Playable Theatre’: On Gaming and Aesthetic Control” -
Jen Parker-Starbuck (Royal Holloway, University of London, U.K.), April 15, 2021, 5 pm
“Animals in the Machine: Robotic Animal Agents” -
Panel: The Future of Transmedia Performance. May 14, 2021, 5 pm