Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Remixing theater: Skype theater

Part of what my initial focus was on this blog was showing the benefits of Skype, then later on my focus has become remix and copyright. Tying these two together, I have come to think of how remix can pertain not only to re-using or re-making content, but also remixing the media themselves. For example the media of  books is being remixed into e-books. In conjunction with this, I recently encountered another remixed media: Skype theater: http://www.tv2fyn.dk/article/383045?autoplay=1&video_id=57079
I know it's in Danish so there's probably not too many of you who can understand it, so I'll give the brief of it. So basically, there is a theater group in Denmark that is going to start showing their productions via Skype, allowing people to view and participate in the production from all over. The director even wants to include a webcam onstage showing the actor's perspective, as well as another camera backstage to help give the public a feel of what it's like to be a part of the production, not only a viewer. They're even reaching into the world of crowd sourcing, with discussion of including the public in the writing of the script. Like other forms of remix, this takes something old and traditional and applies modern digital culture to give it new life and make it more accessible to today's digital audience.

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