The (St)Age of Participation: audience involvement in interactive performances

In today's age of participation, co-creation, user-generated content and social networking have become part of a mass-appeal digital lifestyle. This contribution discusses potential implications for contemporary and future media art in the context of the stage. It reflects on why and how intera...

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Published inDigital creativity (Exeter) Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 119 - 129
Main Authors Lindinger, Christopher, Mara, Martina, Obermaier, Klaus, Aigner, Roland, Haring, Roland, Pauser, Veronika
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 01.06.2013
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audience participation
interactive performance
media art
social flow
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Summary:In today's age of participation, co-creation, user-generated content and social networking have become part of a mass-appeal digital lifestyle. This contribution discusses potential implications for contemporary and future media art in the context of the stage. It reflects on why and how interactive performances could give consideration to this zeitgeist of empowered spectatorship and, moreover, proposes principles for participatory stage pieces that incorporate practice-based experience as well as findings from (social) flow theory, a psychological framework for optimal creative experience that we found to be valuable for fostering audience engagement in interactive dramaturgies.
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ISSN:1462-6268
1744-3806
DOI:10.1080/14626268.2013.808966