Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Yuji Sone
Contact via yuji.sone@mq.edu.au
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
39cp
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines the place of digital media in both everyday and art performances in relation to questions of technology, communication, and aesthetics in contemporary society. The time spent in class consists of approximately 60 per cent production exercise, and 40 per cent production analysis and theoretical study. Students are expected to work in groups for their production experiments. These production exercises are regarded as works in progress, and are presented publicly in the second half of the semester.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Contribution to workshop | 15% | Week 1, 2, 3, 4 |
Individual report (1) | 20% | 07 April |
Group performance project | 30% | Week 6-12 |
Individual report (2) | 35% | 13 June |
Due: Week 1, 2, 3, 4
Weighting: 15%
Students' contribution to workshop, tutorial, presentation, and post-performance discussion will be regarded as an important participatory activity in this unit. Contribution means appropriate comments, positive and active engagement in tasks, and a positive attitude to class activities.
More detailed information will be provided in class and available from iLearn.
Due: 07 April
Weighting: 20%
Each student discusses, in a short speculative report, the findings from his or her own research in relation to class discussion and the issues raised in lectures. Students may like to refer to others’ findings if these will enhance their argument.
More detailed information will be provided in class and available from iLearn.
Due: Week 6-12
Weighting: 30%
Weight: 30% (15% as group + 15% as individual)
Students will explore themes relating to contemporary ‘digital’ environment and living in a group performance, applying digital technologies to performance making. Each group will work together to produce a group performance experiment in Week 11. An external audience will be invited to attend the final showing. The audience’s and students' feedback will be taken into account in assessment of group works. Individual contribution throughout the group project period will be assessed. Students' feedback will be taken into account in assessment of individual contributions.
More detailed information will be provided in class and available from iLearn.
Due: 13 June
Weighting: 35%
On the basis of discussion in Week 12, students write up a report examining differences between proposal and actuality. Students' ability to critique and discuss another group's project and own projects, highlighting issues in a logical and scholarly manner in relation to class discussion about the projects, will be assessed. Students are also expected to discuss social and cultural implications of the performances and/or to analyse their performance works in relation to the relevant debates or terminologies within theatre and performance studies .
More detailed information will be provided in class and available from iLearn.
For lecture times and classrooms please consult the MQ Timetable website: http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au. This website will display up-to-date information on your classes and classroom locations.
On-Campus Sessions
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Session 1 |
Tuesday class |
2pm-5pm |
Y3A 187 |
Required Reading
There is no Unit Reader for MMCS330. Recommended readings can be downloaded from eReserve.
Recommended Books
Turkle, Sherry. 2011. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books. HM851 .T86 2011
Carr, Nicholas. 2011. The shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains. New York: W.W. Norton. QP360 .C3667 2011
Dixon, Steve. 2007. Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theatre, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press. NX180.T4 D59 2007
Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer. 2011. Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/technological intersections in multimedia performance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. PN2193.E86 P372 2011
Technology Used and Required
The unit uses the following technology: iLearn and Turnitin
Week 1 04/03/14 |
Overview of Unit: structure, assignment, assessment. Lecture: Cyberculture and Digital Living Groups for the mid-term report task Group work at computer lab Suggested Readings Westlake, E.J. 2008. “Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance”, The Drama Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 21-40. (eReserve) More references are available in iLearn. |
Week 2 11/03/14 |
Lecture & tutorial topic Cyberculture and Digital Living 2 Video workshop 1 Groups for video exercise: ‘Make Youtube video’ Video camera operation, shooting footage, importing video footage Suggested Readings Way, Geoffrey. 2011. “Social Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Social Media, and Performance”, Journal of Narrative Theory, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 401-420. (eReserve) More references are available in iLearn. |
Week 3 18/03/14 |
Lecture & tutorial topic Cyberculture and Digital Living 3 *Class discussion on the report themes Speculative report (1) instructions Video workshop 2 Editing @ computer lab |
Week 4 25/03/14 |
Video workshop 3 Class discussion |
Week 5 01/04/14 |
Lecture & tutorial topic Cyborg, Liveness, Mediatisation, and Performance Studies Suggested Readings Balme, Christopher. 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press. 195-208. (eReserve) Auslander, Philip. 2008. Liveness: performance in a mediatized culture. 2nd ed. London and New York: Routledge. 43-48. (eReserve) More references are available in iLearn. Performance workshop Stage design Performance project Groups, Brainstorming for Performance Experiment *Draft proposal, *'Story-board' and floor plan |
Week 6 08/04/14 |
Performance project *Final proposal, Development plan |
Mid-term Break |
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Week 7 29/04/14 |
Performance project Filming, Editing |
Week 8 06/05/14 |
Performance project Technical run-through, Blocking |
Week 9 13/05/14 |
Performance project Rehearsal |
Week 10 20/05/14 |
Performance project Dress rehearsal |
Week 11 27/05/14 |
Performance project Performance |
Week 12 03/06/14 |
Performance project Discussion of each experiment |
Week 13 |
Self-study, consultation by appointment |
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Extensions
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