RA2D05 - New Media Performance 01 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2027 | Version 2

Associated Module Information

Module Code: RA2D05
Module Title: New Media Performance
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Music and Drama
Faculty Sub Group: Drama
Module Leader: Matthew Gough
Module Team: Sera Williams
First Intended Intake: SEP 2016 Final Year of Intake:
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 40 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100069 - drama
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 2
Valid From 01 Sep 2023
Valid To 31 Aug 2027

Module Aims

Understand online/digital theatre’s/performance’s structures in relation to ideas of liveness, bodyless, spaceless and interactivity.

Understand new writing and devise methods by using online/digital tools in theatre/performance making and staging.

Understand and engage with new forms of intermedial and participatory theatre/performance and theatre-making/performance making on the Internet/with the use of digital tools.

Explore online/digital participatory theatre practices using social media

Content Summary

On completing the module students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of online theatre practice and theory. Within a series of weekly workshops, students will learn to apply theoretical and practical responses to intermedia performance practices. Students will acquire practice-as-research skills in accessing, using and reflecting on available online tools in audience engagement, theatre making and staging participatory, intermedia performances. Students will research performance practices through case study examples, and devising workshops.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Seminar 6
Demonstration 6
Practical classes and workshops 84
External visits 4
Independent Study 184
Directed Study 110
Formative Assessment - Scheduled 6
Total Hours Selected 400

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Understand current debates in digital performance studies and online theatre practices.
LO2 Critically evaluate information sources, analysing a range of contexts from which online performances emerge.
LO3 Develop strategies for interactive performance and audience engagement.
LO4 Conduct research in group performances

Module Requisites

N/A

Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Oral Assessment (CW) Presentation (CW) 1 Students will engage with a practical acting for camera workshop, and articulate their understanding of actor - director relationships in screen based contexts. 20 N/A 20 No 40
Portfolio Portfolio 1 Students will maintain an online, individual blog/portfolio throughout the module. This should include their critical reflections from workshops, documentation of their creative process and evidence of their on-going research. 0 3000 30 No 40
Practical _Practical Assessment 1 Group Production - Students will create a live/participatory performance event in groups informed by and based on the production practices they have learned within the module. 20 N/A 50 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4
Presentation (CW) 1
Portfolio 1
_Practical Assessment 1

Reading List

Auslander, P. (1999) Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London: Routledge

Bay-Cheng, S., Kattenbelt, C., Lavender, A. and Nelson, R. (2010) Mapping Intermediality in Performance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.

Brecht, B. (1964b) [1932] ‘The radio as an apparatus of communication’, in Willett, J. (ed. and transl.) Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. New York: Hill and Wang, pp. 51–52.

Dixon, S. (2007) Digital Performance: A history in new media in theater, dance, performance art and installation. Cambridge MA: MIT Press

Giannach, G (2004) Virtual Theatres: An Introduction. London: Routledge

Jamieson, H.V. (2008) Adventures in Cyberformance: Experiments at the interface of the theatre and the internet. OUT ePrints

Papagiannouli, C. (2016) Political Cyberformance: The Etheatre Project. Hampshire: Palgrave MacMillan

Schreibman, S., Siemens, R. and Unsworth. J. (eds) (2004) A Companion to Digital Humanities. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 121–131.

White, M. (2006) The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship. London: MIT Press.