Epíleg: Tecnologies incertes

Marc Villanueva Mir; Francesca Salvà Cerdà

Authors

Marc Villanueva Mir Institut del Teatre https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2174-3095
Francesca Salvà Cerdà Institut del Teatre https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7182-6159

Keywords:

technology, new technologies, uncertainty, innovation, progress, materiality, agency, cognition

Abstract

Transcript of the text of the opening lecture of the symposium “Live Art and Uncertain Technologies” of the journal Estudis Escènics held at the Institut del Teatre in 2024. The aim is to develop and question the idea of innovation in the use of technologies on stage and to assess uncertainty as the foundation of artistic creation. Uncertainty characterises the relationship we have with technology, or that we want to have. From the point of view of artistic creation, digital technologies pose questions about agency, presence, interaction, communication or perception: fundamental questions for live art that digital media do not exhaust, but rather amplify and recontextualise. As with divination, with technology we seek more questions than answers, more uncertainty than accuracy, more mystery than assertion.

Author Biographies

Marc Villanueva Mir, Institut del Teatre

Marc Villanueva Mir Bachelor’s Degree in Stage Directing and Dramaturgy from the Institut del Teatre, and in Literary Studies from the Universitat de Barcelona. He did the Master of Arts in Applied Theatre Studies at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. His projects particularly focus on the drama- turgy of the image, the performativity of technology, and the active participation of spectators. He is an associate professor in the Bachelor’s Degree in Literary Studies at the Universitat de Barcelona, as well as coordinator and teacher of the Postgraduate Degree in Performance and Digital Technology at the Institut del Teatre.

Francesca Salvà Cerdà, Institut del Teatre

Xesca Salvà Cerdà Bachelor’s Degree in Catalan Language and Literature from the Universitat de les Illes Balears and in Set Design from the Institut del Teatre. Her work stands out for her research on interaction and play. She teaches at the Institut del Teatre and is currently coordinator of its Postgraduate Degree in Performance and Digital Technology.