This group was created to support Barry Joseph's keynote presentation at the 2008 Second Life Community Convention's SLEDcc, "Why Second Life Can't Tip: The Power and Perils of Living La Vida Ludic," for before, during and after the presentation.
In RL, Stephen A. Schrum is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. With a Ph.D. in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley, Schrum begun teaching with technology in 1993, and since then has been writing and presenting on technology, including editing the book, Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching, Acting and Directing (2000). He will have a chapter entitled, “Theatre in Second Life® Holds the VR Mirror Up To Nature,” in the forthcoming book, Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics (2009). His other interests include digital filmmaking, virtual performance, and playwrighting. As for the latter two categories, Schrum will perform his full-length monologue, Immaculate Misconceptions, in the virtual world of Second Life in mid-summer 2008. As Phorkyad Acropolis in Second Life, he is the owner of Faust's Study, and the publisher of several poetry anthologies both in-world and in the real world (cafepress.com). He directed a one-act play, The Perm, by Zayante Hegel, in SL in the summer of 2007, and Euripides’ The Bacchae in the summer of 2008.
I did my presentation at SLEDcc on Sunday at 2pm. 16 people attended, and I think the librarians came to make sure I stopped before their session at 3:00--there was a misprint on the colorful printout that suggested I was doing a repeat performance. (Just kidding; I think they were also interested in the topic.)
But once was enough. Of course, as a theatre person, I criticized my actual performance rather harshly, but my paper and ideas were received quite well. I was also quite… Continue
I have just returned from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in Denver, where I made two presentations. I am thinking of those two and my SLEDcc paper as a kind of trilogy, dealing with teaching and performance in SL.
While the second one (on my Theatre Technology class) went fine, I was more gratified by the response from the first: "Virtuality: A Production of Euripides' The Bacchae in SL." I began by asking the 28 or so people in the room if they had… Continue
No I wasn't able to be there in first life, and was barely there in second life due to it being the first week of classes! I don't know how any teaching profs were able to make it frankly, worst dates ever!
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