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Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
Curated by
The Digital Rocking Chair
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Dominic Cavendish explains how a real-time, digital reimagining of Shakespeare's play will take place in Stratford and around the worldwide web this weekend.
The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Guess what I'm going to be doing this weekend? 
Deanya Lattimore Schempp's curator insight,
June 22, 2013 12:31 PM
Whoa! "In a ground-breaking initiative called Midsummer Night’s Dreaming, delivered in substantial part by Google’s creative division, the action will primarily be experienced at one digital remove through a dedicated website – dream40.org – which has already gone live. This site will anticipate, comment on and followShakespeare’s action – as enacted largely unseen by the RSC cast – using specially devised materials, whether it be tweets, animations or other postings, and will draw too on material supplied by the online world. In other words, it will be the buzz around the events – some of it generated by 35 ancillary characters, specially created for the occasion – that takes centrestage." My favorite piece so far is Justin Snout's sound cloud poetry 
Lindsey Carroll's curator insight,
June 24, 2013 3:34 PM
anything that speads the work of Skakespeare must be good in my opinion. |
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The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:
Lyn Gardner: "Did you watch the live-streaming of Howard Brenton's Drawing the Line with us? Have you been to one of the NT Live broadcasts? Will that stop you going to the theatre?"
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The Big Idea: "The result is a series of audio interviews with 23 practitioners, producers, curators and researchers across theatre, dance and visual arts which Melissa hopes is the start of a toolkit for performance professionals and emerging artists."
[All nine podcasts can be found here.]