[Candrama] CFP: Digital Theatre in Canada (David Owen)

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Digital Theatre in Canada, Volume 12 (May 2021)

New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Editor, David Owen
General Editor, Roberta Barker

PLAYWRIGHTS CANADA PRESS (CALL FOR PAPERS)

Contributions of are invited for a new anthology dedicated to the study of
digital theatre in Canada. Abstracts defining proposed essays topics of 250
words should be submitted directly to David Owen by December 1st, 2017.

Steve Dixon, in his book *Digital Performance: A History of New Media in
Theater, Dance, Performance Art and Installation*, defines digital
performance as “all performance works where computer technologies play a
key role rather than a subservient one in content, technique, aesthetics,
or delivery forms” (3). This is the same quote used at the beginning of the
special issue of *Canadian Theatre Review *on digital performance in
Canada (Volume
159). The connection is intentional. Using Dixon’s definition as a starting
point and influenced by recent scholarship by Andy Lavender, Sarah
Bay-Cheng, Hans-Thies Lehman, and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, this anthology
of essays will explore how digital technologies force us to change or
re-evaluate our definitions of space, our bodies, and our relationships
through recent examples of digital theatre in Canada.

The anthology will be divided into the three broad categories mentioned
above and will focus on one or more topic areas that befit that broad
category. Some example topic areas are:

Space:

-          Performance within virtual environments (including videogames)

-          Alternate and/or Augmented reality

-          Telepresence

-          Issues of liveness

-          Interactive space as a form of performance

Bodies:

-          Interactivity (performer to performer, performer to audience,
audience to audience)

-          The cyborg

-          The posthuman

-          Presence/absence

-          Liveness

-          Gender

-          Race

-          Ability

-          Embodied knowledges and histories

-          Wearable technology

Relationships:

-          The influence (and use) of social media

-          Issues of interconnected isolation as defined by Sherry
Turkle’s *Alone
Together*

-          Virtual relationships

-          New definitions of narrative

-          Algorithmic interactivity and game structures

-          Issues of liveness

-          Identity creation (and theft)

-          Virtually participatory theatre

These topic areas are not exhaustive and contributors should not feel
constrained by their implied boundaries.

This anthology on digital theatre in Canada is scheduled to be published by
the Playwrights Canada Press in May of 2021, as the twelfth volume in the
series of New Essays on Canadian Theatre. The proposed timeline for this
publication is:

1.      Abstracts (250 words); Bios (100 words) – Due December 1, 2017.

2.      Successful contributors will be informed – January 1, 2018.

3.      Full draft of articles (6000-8000 words including Works Cited and
Notes, MLA style) – Due December 1, 2018.

4.      Editing and polishing throughout 2019.

5.      Files are to be sent to the publisher – September 2020,

6.      Publication Date – May 2021

For submission, questions, and inquiries, please contact David Owen
directly at davidowen999 at gmail.com

-- 
David Owen, PhD, MFA, MA
Scholar, Director, Playwright, Musician, Gamer
Author of: *Player and Avatar: The Affective Potential of Videogames*
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