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Digital theater is the addition of actors and 0 and 1 bits, moving in the net.
Actors in digital theater may interact from different times and places The action
s of two actors in two different times and places coincide in the network of inf
inite times and virtual spaces.
On the 21st century, genetist conception of theater (from the generation to the
birth of the scene) will be replaced by an organization of interactive and inter
cultural activities.
Digital theater refers to a binary language connecting the organic with the inor
ganic, the material with the virtual, the actor in the flesh with the avatar, th
e present audience with the internet users, the physical stage with the cyberspa
ce.
The digital theater of La Fura dels Baus allows interaction on stages inside and
outside the net, inventing new hypermedia interfaces. Hypertext and its protoco
ls create a new kind of narration, closer to thoughts or dreams, generating an i
nner theater where dreams become (virtual) reality. Internet is the realization
of a collective thought, organic and chaotic, that has been developed with no de
fined hierarchy. Digital theater multiplies in thousands of representations wher
e cybertheater fans may display images of their own subjectivity, within shared
virtual worlds.
Will digital theater perpetuate Phallocracy? Will Vaginocracy eventually win? Or
will both join in perfect harmony 0-1?
In digital theater, the absolute abstraction coexists with the return to the bod
y, that may have a sadomasochist dimension as well as a sensual, angelical, or or
giastic dimension; or perhaps a mixture of all of them.
By definition, theatrical act involves an excess, a surplus of performance. It s t
he pleasure of showing and being shown. An identification flow is established be
tween the actor and the audience. How does this identification work in digital t
heater? How does a hand fit into a glove? As an extension of oneself? With the i
ntegration in the net?
Digital technology makes the old dream of transcending the human body possible.
Thus, cyberspace may be inhabited by bodies with a new representational envelope
, between subjectivity and materiality.
We have to leave our own skin to penetrate into a common perceptual reference. T
he roles of the actor, the author and the audience tend to merge.
Digital culture does not belong to a reproduction technology anymore, but to an
immediate production. While photography spoke in the past it was like this , by fre
ezing an instant, digital image speaks in the present it is like this , joining the
live act, the theater, the here and now.
Digital theater allows the image to mutate, from one configuration to another, a
ctual and virtual, placing it in different stages: an icon of synthesis which wi
ll always remain HUMAN.