Current Projects
I’m working with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality to reimagine how the world-leading institution archives and disseminates its research. We are building a new digital archive that showcases, and makes searchable, years of ground-breaking experiments in digital technologies and the performing arts. The new site will launch end of 2022.
As the lead researcher on the European Theatre Convention’s ‘Digital Theatre - Digital Strategies and Business Models in European Theatre’ project, I created a survey to collect data and insights from the ETC’s member theatres. The data collection is now complete, and I am working on the results. This is the first ever study into digital theatre and business strategies across Europe, and we will publish the results in Spring 2023.
As a research fellow at the Academy for Theatre and Digitality (Sep 2021 - Jan 2022), I created two installations that invited the public to explore my academic research. The first, ‘Automating the Audience’, was a museum of audiences and audience behaviour that began with the claqueurs of 1820s Paris, encountered the so-called ‘bot behaviour’ of today’s music fandoms, and stepped into an imaginary future, via the popular VR game Job Simulator.
The second installation, ‘Future Tense’, offered a speculative audio guide for future theatres (left), a chance to discuss my research with my chatbot companion Sam, and the presentation of three large video works that explored the “work” of the audience member, in the context of cultural value. I plan to make a third iteration of these installations in 2023.
