Digital Historiography and Performance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4883973
AutoresSarah Bay-Cheng (0000-0003-1789-164X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen68
Número4
Páginas507-527
Fecha de publicación2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTheatre Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tj.2016.0104
OpenAlexW2571442959
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas9

In the wake of the so-called digital revolution, media and technology affect not only performance practices, but also how the history of those practices can be documented, analyzed, and shared. The last several years have seen significant increases in digital research and scholarship projects, as well as more official recognition throughout the field, including special issues and edited collections dedicated to the digital humanities in theatre and performance studies research. At the same time, digital technologies offer new approaches to history that may themselves resemble performance. These histories need not be only linear, narrative historiography, but can enable a conception of historiography that exists in multiple places at once, incorporates many voices (some contradictory), and is distributed, sometimes bodily, among multiple perspectives. This essay considers both the distinctions between digital performance and digital methodologies in performance history and historiography, and how these changing digital practices—both methodological and creative—are shaping both the history of performance and history as performance. It responds to larger trends in digital methods affecting not only academia, but also contemporary culture more broadly. The convergence of these inquiries into digital history and theatre culminates in a case study of the Decision Points Theater at the George W. Bush Presidential Museum and Library in Dallas, where the recent history of the Bush presidency can be played out in real time by visitors through digital, performative displays

Aesthetics · Art · Digital media · Historiography · History of technology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Performative utterance · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · History · Law

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