Theatre, Performance and Technology explores the research fields of performance and theatre studies, new media and digital culture studies, and art and aesthetics.
The book considers the history of the technological advances in the screened technologies of new media and computer environments, and the manners in which theatre and performance, culture and subjectivity, and material and metaphysical conditions have evolved within those systems. Matthew Causey argues that the era of virtuality (a problem of illusion and representation) has given way to a more troubling model of embeddedness (a problem of materiality and embodiment).
The wide-ranging study reflects on how the theatre and performance have been challenged and extended within these new cultural phenomena.