Sorry for being a little late in replying, but I was kinda busy keeping track of your replies and direction... so first of all, thank you all for your suggestions. I will surely go straight on reading Brenda Laurel's books and Chauncey Wilson's detailed list of articles.
Jeff Howard exactly got my point citing the Peter Pan premiere in 1904, a little less with American Idol ( as I understood, a TV programme). Just, I wouldn't put them on the same level, as TV comes to you, while theatre is something you should go after. In a theatrical interaction, there is the stage, normally sitting in front of you, and an audience, sitting in front of the actors. This kind of division is necessary to the existence of theatre (as any kind of interaction), as two parts must communicate to each other without loosing their identity. Now, what often comes in theatrical interaction, is that the message of the show does not really arrive to the audience. They could be hit by the appearance of the show, the quality of the actors, the lights, the screens or whatever, but the content could remain unexpressed. This kind of challenge is what I think makes theatre and interaction design communicate. The latest research in theatrical field ( at least those from which I come from) goes in the direction of manipulating the acting space and merge it with the audience. Audience would be "on stage", or at least very close to the actors, so close that they could even touch them. This doesn't normally comes true. Audience stays in their place and I would be curious to know if they really did clap their hand to save Tinkerbell, however, I believe the use of technology on stage could help in the direction of putting the audience in a non-conscious active situation ( like that of their shadow on a wall projection) and let the actor play with this to "touch" their audience without being touched. This poses another question about the results of this tryadic interaction between actors, audience and machine. Did I lost flew away from the focus??? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=26112 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
