Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance

<p>This dissertation seeks to address the pivotal ecological and technological realities of the twenty-first century, currently giving rise to new patterns of existence and new paradigms of human inquiry. This study will ask how technological innovation and environmental urgency have altered the ways in which human beings think, and thus perceive the world around them, changing human behavior, or non-behavior, and calling forth new imperatives for the arts, and namely for the Theatre. Most significantly, the dissertation attempts to traverse the shadow-lands, between our ecologies and our technologies, exploring those essential points of convergence in the borderlands where Eco-Theatre and New Media must find a precious balance. As digital media and new technologies continue to transcend previously conceived barriers, so do new opportunities present themselves. New forms emerge, bridging cultures, facilitating connections of thought beyond national geographic boundaries. Rising to the challenge, seeking a global, even playing ground in a liminal age of shifting, invisible borders, this dissertation addresses the current need for re-envisioning of our positionality as artists, and as citizens of the world. In conclusion, the dissertation points toward a methodology of interdisciplinary creative collaboration, of global community-based social practice art, of theatre ecology, and of active new media strategies to address the needs of this decisive age.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Speech Communication

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Glazier, Marnie Jane

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fletcher, Anne
• Pelias, Ronald

• Devised Theatre
• Ecology
• Ecotheatre
• new media
• social action
• Theatre

Repository record dc:identifier

https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/564

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:opensiuc.lib.siu.edu:dissertations-1565