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Live Media: Interactive Technology and Theatre

In the past century, film, radio, and video technologies gave rise to new forms of dramatic expression and a global entertainment industry. In the past decade, interactive media technologies have been producing an artistic and cultural revolution of similar, if not greater, proportions. Interactive media are giving birth to new art forms, and the practice and history of theatre has a great deal to contribute to these new forms. As I have argued elsewhere, the way that current digital artists valorize the concept of “interactivity” relates closely to the way theatre and performance artists have long valorized the concept of “liveness.” Digital artists strive to define interactive experiences in much the same way, and perhaps for many of the same reasons, as did creators of Happenings and environmental theatre in the 1960s (Saltz, “Interaction”).