Lecture 'Networks, Influence and the Politics of Scenographic Discourses: Using Digital Tools to Map Artistic Signatures'

In this seminar, Prof Margaret Hamilton explores the question of how to account for artistic 'signatures' attributed to stage directors that emerge from a dynamic network of artists interacting to create a work, and interconnected through professional relational ties to other artists and theatre work.

She will demonstrate the use of digital tools to map the collaborations intrinsic to the creation of scenographic discourses, and as a method of measuring the transfer and transformation of design languages key to theatre production.

In doing so, the seminar will consider the formation of a “repertoire” of tendencies in design and question the political logic intrinsic to aesthetic styles that manifest in productions with radically different performance agendas in the theatre medium.

Participants will get the opportunity to share their own artistic or theoretical practices with each other, fostering a collective discussion on the mapping of artistic connections.