{"id":17374,"date":"2024-12-02T19:25:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/winnipeg\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T00:38:11","slug":"winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.playwrights.ca\/fr\/digitaldramaturgy-ddi\/winnipeg\/","title":{"rendered":"About Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gather.town<\/em> also facilitated communication with and inclusion of our colleagues in Montreal and Vancouver. Given pandemic restrictions most consultations with our content experts were given over zoom, but the participating artists were able to work in-person, in Video Pool Media Arts Centre spaces and the MAP Studio, spread out over three floors of the Artspace building. One of the advantages of being housed all in one building was the easy access the participants had to each other\u2019s projects, popping in for visits and to satisfy curiosities, and outside of the workrooms there were many spontaneous opportunities to check-in with each other and share learning outcomes. In all, it made for a vibrant hive of creative energy and activity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hosted in Winnipeg by the Manitoba Association of Playwrights in partnership with local company Video Pool Media Arts Centre, both located in the Artspace Building in Winnipeg\u2019s historic Exchange District, this leg of the DDI primarily focused on the integration of digital technology and practices into live performance pieces. The core of the Winnipeg investigation centred on exposing theatre artists to potential digital tools in early stages of their story development, countering the traditional integration of digital design in late stages of the process, often not until the pre-production or rehearsal phase. How might this early exposure influence or shape or inform how their story is being told? Most of the projects were at a very hands-on stage of development and the week became an opportunity for rapid prototyping and rough-testing. <\/p>\n

Winnipeg benefited greatly from being the 2nd leg of the DDI initiative, which had always been planned as an iterative cross-country undertaking. So much of what was developed in the Montreal leg – scheduling, onboarding the artists, setting up the spaces, serving the individual projects and their needs \u2013 was learned from and carried forward into the planning and execution of the Winnipeg workshops. Case in point, Gather was once again used as a virtual meeting hub, but the Winnipeg version benefited greatly from the tweaking and patching that was done in Montreal. In that sense, it was interesting to see some of the digital tools themselves being improved over the course of an initiative investigating the use of digital tools.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\n \u201c<\/span>Digital dramaturgy, for me, is anchored in a critical investigation of the relationship between digital technology and artistic performance, encompassing everything from the live versus mediated performing body to the collisions of structure and form.\u201d<\/span>
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