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Informationen zum Autor Dr. Westling is Lecturer in Cross-Platform Media at Bournemouth University, UK. She has published widely in the peer-reviewed interaction design literature, including the concluding chapter in Digital Make-believe , eds. P. Turner and J. Tuomas Harviainen (2016) Joslin McKinney is Associate Professor in Scenography, Deputy Head of School and Programme Manager for the postgraduate course in Performance Design in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. Scott Palmer is Associate Professor in Performance Design and Director of Student Education in the School of Performance & Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, UK. He is the co-editor with Joslin McKinney of Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design and with Katherine Graham and Kelli Zezulka of Contemporary Performance Lighting: Experience, Creativity and Meaning. Stephen A. Di Benedetto is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre Michigan State University, USA. He is Associate Editor (Drama) for ASAP/ Journal and Associate Editor for Scene . His books include The Provocation of the Senses in Contemporary Theatre (2010) and An Introduction to Theatre Design (2012).This volume explores the craft of interaction design through Punchdrunk’s physical and digital scenography for participatory audiences. Zusammenfassung Longlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk’s Theatrical Worlds is a detailed account of the company's award-winning productions and their historical context. Examining Punchdrunk's role as pioneers of immersive theatre in the UK through a range of their productions including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man besides theatrical works such as Faust , The Duchess of Malfi and Kabeiroi , and cross-platform productions like The Moon Slave , The Borough and The Oracles , the book presents an original framework for understanding immersion in theatrical and mixed reality experiences.Central to the book is a study of how immersive experience is produced in interaction with physical and digital scenography for participatory audiences. Through ethnographies of the company, their designers, actors, producers and audiences, the book interrogates the relationship between the aesthetics of interaction and the experience of immersion in Punchdrunk’s work. The theoretical framework that the book introduces affords analyses of material cultures and the influence of technology on interaction design in theatre and beyond, and offers a blueprint for next-generation immersive design and scenography for interactive multimedia environments. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations1. Introduction: Immersion in Punchdrunk’s Theatre Scaling up: Space, Time, Audiences Audiences on- and Offline Gravity, Consequence and Emergence 2. Ritual and Rhetoric in Narrative Systems System Narratives and the Shape of Interaction Perspectives on Agency in Interactive Systems The Postdigital Sublime: Beyond the Digital Mythos3. A Genealogy of the Immersive Aesthetic Key Influences on the Immersive Aesthetic Antirealist Modernism Complicity and Participation Blended Spaces and the Vertigo of Transformation4. Punchdrunk’s Interactive Systems The ‘Punchdrunk System’ Emergence and Order Art-work and Algorithmic Audiences5. Behind the Interface: Making Punchdrunk’s Storyworlds Crafting Storyworlds Devising and Performing6. Audience Experience and Participation Analysing Punchdrunk Audiences The Effects of Anonymity Active Immersion Delinquent System Aesthetics7. Impure Futures Condemned to Change The Sublime vs. Efficiency Harnessing...
