DIGITAL THEATER

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Digital theater is the addition of actors and 0 and 1 bits, moving in the net.
Actors in digital theater may interact from different times and places… The actions of two actors in two different times and places coincide in the network of infinite times and virtual spaces.
On the 21st century, genetist conception of theater (from the generation to the birth of the scene) will be replaced by an organization of interactive and intercultural activities.
Digital theater refers to a binary language connecting the organic with the inorganic, the material with the virtual, the actor in the flesh with the avatar, the present audience with the internet users, the physical stage with the cyberspace.

 
     
    W.I.P: es un laboratorio desarrollado dentro de un ámbito de Teatro Digital. Representaciones realizadas simultáneamente en varios espacios, distantes entre sí, conectados a través de una red de comunicación digital. Público y actores realizan un viaje incorpóreo continuo entres los diferentes espacios conectados. No es un proyecto cerrado sino que desde la primera creación ha cambiando en función de las aportaciones recibidas, siendo el resultado final todo el proceso de evolución. Desde el Laboratorio de Cálculo de la Facultad de Informática de Barcelona una página web interactiva acompaña todo este proceso. Se ha desarrollado en 1997, implicando a cuatro ciudades: Freiburg (Alemania), Tàrrega, Girona y Bruselas (Bélgica), conectadas todas ellas a través de vídeo conferencia durante las performances.  
         
    "Tele-Actor Project" it's a UC Berkely initiative investigating network-based systems that allow groups of users to "explore" live remote environments such as a rainforest, biotechnology lab, political rally, or rock concert. The "Tele-Actor" is a skilled human with cameras and microphones connected to a wireless digital network. Live video and audio are broadcast to participants via the Internet or interactive television. Participants not only view, but interact with each other and with the Tele-Actor by voting on what to do next. Our "Spatial Dynamic Voting" (SDV) interface incorporates group dynamics into a variety of online experiences.  
         
    Tornado Theatre is a virtual lab designed to facilitate experimentation with live performance, 360° film and worldwide broadcast via the Internet.
The Tornado Theatre Hypothesis believes in the marriage of live performance and the Internet.  Using a state-of-the-art 360° video camera and the newest streaming technology, they try to convey some of the excitement and vitality of live performance by allowing the Internet viewer, control over where to look during the piece. In addition to an exciting immersive video experience, you can chat live with fellow audience members, review the script, watch rehearsals and post comments for actors, directors and technicians.  		 
         
 


"Demotic" is a performance work about American Memory, a single character whose many voices are woven together into a complex texture of language, sound, and music. It is an improvisation among different kinds of performers and different modes of reality, involving sound artists, a theater actor, and a group of Internet-based performers who improvise with text. As an ensemble work in which actors, avatars, and musicians find the music within a wide range of online voices, it is a kind of covert national anthem.  
     
 



Internet2 is a consortium being led by 207 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy.