Pxr2020
Re-Seeing the Possibilities of Theatre in Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21523316 |
|---|---|
| Authors | S C Fung, Stephanie Fung (0000-0002-2177-4254), Kelsey Jacobson (0000-0003-0919-1096), Jordan Pike, Jordan C Pike (0000-0002-3878-4168) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 189 |
| Pages | 73-75 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Theatre Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0315-0836 • E-ISSN: 1920-941X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/ctr.189.013 |
| OpenAlex | W4210819359 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
What new insights and opportunities does virtual reality (VR) offer to theatre and performance? In turn, what potential might theatre offer to VR creators? This potentially fruitful cross-pollination was precisely what prompted host organizations Single Thread Theatre Company and Electric Company Theatre to program the inaugural Performance and XR Symposium in October 2020, a conference designed to foster and explore the relationship between theatre and XR (a catch-all term for media created with virtual, augmented, and mixed reality). The experience of the conference was one of re-seeing the possibilities of performance in a new media form: discussions around access, spectatorship, and ethics—topics familiar to and well trodden by theatre artists and scholars—were reinvigorated in the context of virtual reality
Aesthetics · Art · Augmented reality · Human–computer interaction · Mixed reality · Multimedia · Reality television · Sociology · Virtual reality · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |