| Zeit: | 10. – 12. Juli 2025 |
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In the new millennium internet access has increased considerably in African countries.
Recently, the pandemic has led to a widespread use of videoconferencing technologies
such as Zoom and increased the number of online streaming services. This has also
influenced the way people use these media for theatre and in performances, both in
person and online, including digital technologies. Digital technologies therefore may
have an impact on the self-presentation of theatres in the way they reach their
audiences, and how artists produce theatre, and research and rehearse. It also
determines what kind of technology they use on stage, and how these technologies are
used for effect. Collaborative projects that theatre groups and artists commit to are
facilitated by these new technologies and may influence how they create new
productions. New technologies also raise new questions with respect to the use of
multilingualism in performances. Yet digital technologies might also enter fields such
as applied performance and lead to new ways of production and distribution. Finally,
the use of AI on stage might change performative interactions; its use along the
production process, e.g. for the devising of scripts or project plans, might create new
forms of standardization and needs to be inquired further.
The conference proposes to start a discussion on how digital technologies are used in
contemporary African, Afrodiasporic and collaborative theatre and on how and if what
is being produced is influenced by the use of these technologies. Which possibilities are
opened up through the use of new technologies and which are the fields that are
intentionally kept or keep out of the way of new technologies? How do aesthetics,
accessibility and power shape productions and collaborations?
