For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street & Broadway or 116th Street & Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00 pm on Oct. 1 for campus access.
Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event and subsequently reviewed. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event.
Speaker: Tarryn Chun, Associate Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame
In the last decade, large-format LED panels, extended and augmented reality, and artificial intelligence interfaces have appeared with increasing frequency in theatre and dance performances from the PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. These high-tech experiments have reinvigorated old debates over liveness and mediatization, but also raise new questions in contexts where political power and technological development are closely intertwined. This talk will use case studies from the PRC to explore several key issues: How do we understand connections between the performing arts and technological infrastructures, especially in light of the environmental and humanitarian dimensions of constructing and maintaining those systems? What happens when the arts become implicated in nationalistic narratives of technological progress via use of new technologies? How might theoretical formulations at the intersection of theatre and media studies grapple with the complexity of these entanglements?
Speaker's Bio: Dr. Chun is Associate Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and is a Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Sinophone theatre, with emphasis on examining interrelationships among performance, technology, and media. Her book Revolutionary Stagecraft: Theatre, Technology, and Politics in Modern China (University of Michigan Press, 2024) examines the relationship between technological modernization and artistic innovation in 20th-21st century Chinese theatre. Other projects include a second book manuscript on "Spectacle and Excess in Global Chinese Performance," which received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2021, and a collaboration with Professor Anton Juan on "Theatre for Justice in Asia: Past, Present, Futures." She currently serves on the boards of the Association for Asian Performance and the Association for Chinese and Comparative Literature, and as Online Editor for Theatre Journal.
This event is hosted by Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society; Center for Comparative Media.
Registration:
- To attend this event in-person, please register HERE.
- To attend this event online, please register HERE.
