Global Media and Cybertheatres unit (FPB317)

Introduction

What does it mean to act in a global media landscape? In this unit, you will examine the evolving relationship between theatre and technology, exploring how performance can offer new ways to understand, critique, and engage with global media networks as well as generate new paradigms of performance. Informed by key theoretical and critical perspectives from the fields of performance studies and media studies, this unit engages with contemporary practitioners working with virtual reality, social media networks, big data, algorithms, and surveillance technology. Through a blend of critical scholarship and practice-based learning, you will engage with complex issues of privacy, internet cultures and digital identity, and consider how technologies challenge our understandings of human capability and experience.

Summary

Unit name	Global Media and Cybertheatres
Unit code	FPB317
Credit points	12.5
College/School	Arts and Society Creative and Performing Arts
Discipline	Theatre
Coordinator	Doctor Asher Warren
Available as an elective?	Yes
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Advanced

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• Apply knowledge of critical theory to research and analyse key concepts, terms and theories related to global media, performance and technology.
• Analyse how performance artists adopt, critique and respond to global media and new technologies within cultural and historical contexts.
• Identify and discuss social and ethical issues raised by global media networks as well as those explored by artists using technologies in performance.
• Use a range of media to analyse, reflect and creatively respond to unit content.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

25 credit points at Intermediate level

Teaching

Teaching Pattern	On campus (Hobart and Launceston) Weekly Workshop (3 hrs) In addition: Self-directed learning (3-4 hrs), Self-directed rehearsal (1-2 hrs) (9 hours total weekly).
Assessment	Cyber Manifesto (20%)|Creative Assemblage (40%)|Critical Assemblage (40%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.

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