Media Commedia
The Roman Forum Project
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10267523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antoinette Lafarge (567 East Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90806, U.S.A. E-mail: <>.), Robert Allen (0000-0003-2885-1758, 567 East Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach, CA 90806, U.S.A. E-mail: <>.), Robert L Allen (Pacific Coast University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213-218 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Leonardo (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-094X • E-ISSN: 1530-9282 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/0024094054028949 |
| OpenAlex | W1985368097 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
The authors discuss what they term “media commedia”: performance works melding comedic performance traditions with new media technologies. They focus on The Roman Forum Project, a series of mixed-reality performance projects they produced whose subject is contemporary American politics and media as seen through the eyes of ancient Romans. They discuss the developing relationship between the Internet and public discourse; their use of avatars to explore the boundaries between performance and identity; their use of the Internet as an improvisational space; and the mise en abyme effects of working with mixed realities (including text-based virtual worlds)
Aesthetics · Art · Focus (optics) · Identity (music) · Improvisation · Media studies · Multimedia · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Subject (documents) · The Internet · Virtual space · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Law · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |