Speculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance

THEATER C212C - Speculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance

<p>(Seminar, 4 units)  This course explores how stories, particularly in embodied speculative fiction, shape the way technologies are imagined, built, and used in real life.  Through theory, discussion, and experimentation, it explores the interplay between fiction and reality.  The course focuses both on how 20th and 21st century speculative fiction has impacted the technology that we use today and how staging new and different fictions could impact collective imaginaries and, thus, future technologies. Prerequisites: Theater C112A or Theater C112B, or permission of instructor.</p>

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THEATER C112C - Speculative Stages: Shaping Future Technology through Performance

Develop an understanding of the relationship between portrayals of future technologies in fiction and the design and implementation of related technologies, through specific examples from the 20th and 21st century.

Gain experience in theater-making that incorporates speculative technology as subject, design element, or in other ways, with specific attention to the type of future it is implying.

Deepen a critical understanding and perspective of the cultural, economic, and social forces behind the development of technologies that, in turn, impact culture in general and theater in particular.