University
of Virginia
Teaching & Technology
Support Partner
Information Technology & Communications
TTSP Projects
These Projects in the Drama Department:
Tom Bloom
Digital Deconstruction: Investigating the postmodern dialectic between word and pictureTom Bloom
Heritage of Design, Drama 801Billy Rose Theatre Collection
Museum of the city of New York
Joseph Urban Collection at the Rare Book and MS room of Columbia's Butler Library
Shubert Archives
Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute
Katheryn Rohe
The Drama Department's Costume Archive
R. Lee Kenendy
Automated Lighting Studio Project
These projects are underway in other departments around the University:
Teaching Technology Initiatve
E-Folio-- Integrated Electronic Course Portfolio (IECP)Christina Della Coletta, Italian
Italy on Screen - One Hundred Years of Digital Memory: 1860s - 1960sPhyllis Leffer, History
An Oral, Visual, and Documentary Archive of University of Virginia HistoryNatalie O. Kononenko, Slavic
Multimedia Slavic Folklore DatabaseMichael Thomas
Religious Studies Image Database
These are examples of how other drama departments are utilizing technology:
The International Organization of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT)
The Costume Working
Group falls within the Scenography Commission of
OISTAT. There are five different commissions within the organization:
Education and training; Publication and communication; History and theory;
Technology and related fields; Theatre Architecture and related fields;
and
Scenography and related fields.
Teaching Early Modern Drama with Technology
This page is a resource for those interested in the teaching of drama with modern technology. Below are the abstracts of the talks to be presented at a session on Teaching Early Drama with Modern Technology that will be held at the 1995 Modern Languages Association conference at Chicago on the 29th of December.
Virtual
Library for Theater and Drama
Here you will find pointers to resources in more than 50 countries around
the world, for professionals, amateurs, academics and students of all
ages. We are trying to make the site multi-cultural and multi-lingual.
Please help us to help others, and tell us of any resources you think
we should include. The site is updated daily.
Royale
National Theater On-Line
Welcome to the Royal National Theatre's website The National Theatre,
under the direction of Trevor Nunn, is a theatre for everyone, performing
to all age groups from all communities. At its home on London's South
Bank, the National offers an unrivalled range of classics, spectacular
musicals, new plays and entertainment for all the family.
Didaskalia:
Ancient Theater Today
Your electronic source for the latest developments in Greek and Roman
drama, dance, and music as they are performed today.
The
International Theatre Design Archive
The International Theatre Design Archive is a venture of the United States
Institute for Theatre Technology whose mission is to actively promote
the advancement of knowledge and skills in all aspects of design and production
in the performing arts. This archive is intended to provide a valuable
resource to the world by making use of the Wide World Web. "The International
Theatre Design Archive" has been initiated with "Project 2000" which intends
to work toward providing links to two thousand scenic, costume, and lighting
designs archived on the Internet by the year 2000.
Dramatic
Exchange
The Dramatic Exchange is a Web resource for playwrights, producers, and
anybody interested in plays. We aim to provide a place where playwrights
can make their plays available, and where producers and readers can look
to find plays uploaded here by the playwrights.
WPI's
Interactive Technology Reference Manual
The Interactive Theatre Technology Reference Manual provides a wealth
of knowledge about various jobs in the area of theatre performance in
the form of a dynamic web site. The site provides links from each area
of investigation to web sites around the world which offer examination
of the topic. This project familiarizes the reader with the state-of-the-art
in Theatre Technology and can be used by the novice or the professional.
To accommodate the ever changing and dynamic field the project has been
published in HTML.
Projection
and Virtual Reality at WPI
We've done a number of shows using projections and virtual reality over
the past few years. We've used computer generated worlds, computer generated
graphics, slide shows, live video, recorded video, and combinations of
all of these things. What we haven't used is any sort of goggles or glasses
for the audience. There are a number of reasons for that; first, by using
goggles we limit our audience to the number of headsets we have. Those
headsets are never comfortable, and the show becomes about what you can
see through the headsets, making the show a vehicle for the vr and giving
it that "gimmicky" feel. Glasses or goggles also isolate the audience
from one another, and a large part of theatre is the communal nature of
the audience. Finally, settling on any headset would've meant a major
expenditure of capital and a commitment to one technology. One of the
things we're trying to do is keep this technology affordable, so that
actual theaters can use it.