Directing In The Age Of Cyber Culture

Speaker: Amitesh Grover

Location: New Delhi, India

Date: Sunday, March 28th, 18:00 - 19:00 IST | 08:30 am EDT | 05:30 am PDT | 14:30 CEST | 17:00 IRST

Event Access: Re-Connect Zoom Webinar

The digital network is the new stage and algorithms are the new dramaturgical tools. Theatre on the internet is an unbuilt form, a space to test new relational ideas and to explore a new paradigm for human senses, time, and desire. What does directing for the internet mean? How can a director mobilize alterity in the age of images, surveillance, and body-data? How does one work with bodies-in-motion on static screens? To think through these questions, I will use as example my recent cyber-theatre show - The Last Poet. The show features 5 actors and is staged in a 3D Generative World integrated with multiple simultaneous livestreams and interactive features. The experience is unique every time for each audience member taking them through different pathways and narratives via a real-time algorithm. Within these new parameters lies the search for a post-pandemic cyber aesthetic for theatre.

Credits:

Writer Sarah Mariam 

Scenography & Tech Design Ajaibghar 

Film Annette Jacob 

Creative Tech Praveen Sinha & Gagandeep Singh 

 Sound Suvani Suri & Abhishek Mathur 

Assistant Direction Pankhuri Zaheer 

Performers Atul Kumar, Ashwath Bhatt, Bhagyashree Tarke, Pallav Singh, Dipti Mahadev 

Concept & Direction Amitesh Grover

(This project is commissioned by Serendipity Arts Foundation for SA Virtual)

Language: English