Extended Reality Performance - Scenographic Practice in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies

This pioneering collection illuminates the immersive world of Extended Reality Performance (XRP), where avant-garde digital performance-makers push the boundaries of creativity using cutting-edge extended reality (XR) technologies. In an era dominated by rapid advancements in hardware and software, XR technologies have surged in popularity, allowing everyone with a smartphone, tablet or head-mounted display to partake in digital experiences. This collection serves as a portal to the merger of the physical and the digital, encompassing augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies. It offers a broad selection of practice-based perspectives by leading artists, companies and movements working in a variety of countries across the globe, including North America, Europe and the UK. Through their invaluable insights, this book delves into the birth of this revolutionary genre while also offering a fresh perspective, unravelling the creative processes that define XRP. It provides a compilation of artistic position papers, responding to the need for performance designers to invent imaginative experiences within virtual and mixed reality landscapes. It redefines performer-audience dynamics and explores experiences centred around spatial exploration and discovery. Whether you''re a tech enthusiast or an art aficionado, this collection invites you to witness the birth of a new era in performance art.

Product details

• Authors: M, Neill O'Dwyer, Joanne Scott, Gareth W Young
• Assisted by: Néill O’Dwyer (Editor), Joanne Scott (Editor), Gareth W. Young (Editor), Stephen A. Di Benedetto (Editor of the series), Joslin Mckinney (Editor of the series), McKinney Joslin (Editor of the series), Scott Palmer (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.07.2025
• EAN: 9781350507432
• ISBN: 978-1-350-50743-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Performance and Design
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality (AR), ART / Digital, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Theatre Studies, Electronic, holographic & video art, Digital, video and new media arts, Theatre: technical and background skills, COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality