Desktop Theater is pleased to announce the launch of
Desktop Theater is an ongoing series of live theatrical inventions in public Internet chat rooms.
Desktop Theater is made whenever intentional theater-like activity wafts through the layers of unintentional drama and surreal banality encountered in online visual chat rooms.
Since the 1997 performance/adaptation "waitingforgodot.com," Lisa Brenneis and Adriene Jenik have combined strategies culled from street theater, puppet shows, futurist Surprise Theater, early Morality Plays, Zap comix, collage art, and musical improvisation to prompt unexpected exchanges in chat environments (and in Desktop Theater partisans).
Featured within the site is an extensive archive of scripts, logs, images and movies that provides a glimpse into this multi-year research/performance project. The site also includes resource links and a how-to section that contextualize and extend Desktop Theater practice.
check it out!
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Lisa Brenneis' wide-ranging production credits in interactive digital media include everything from Nintendo games to museum exhibits.
Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist and Assistant Professor of Computer and Media Arts at UC, San Diego. Her previous productions include the interactive narrative "MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation."
website design by Leslie Sharpe
The Desktop Theater website is being launched in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition SHIFT-CTRL: Computers, Games & Art at the Beall Center for Art & Technology in Irvine, CA. A live Desktop Theater performance "A Bag Full of Cats: Desktop Theater Interferes with the Parallel Universe" will take place during the October 17th opening from 6-9pm.