Drama and Digital Arts Cultures

David Cameron is deputy director of Academic Technologies in the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His publications include How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Drama education with digital technology (Bloomsbury, 2009) both co-edited with M. Anderson.Michael Anderson is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney, Australia. His previous books include: Partnerships in Education Research: Creating Knowledge that Matters (Bloomsbury, 2014), and MasterClass in Drama Education: Transforming Teaching and Learning (Bloomsbury, 2012), and Drama education with digital technology, co-edited with J. Carroll and D. Cameron (Continum, 2009)Rebecca Wotzko teaches in the School of Communication and Creative Industries, Charles Sturt University, Australia.

• 1. A drama framework for exploring digital arts cultures2. This liquid world: intermediality, postnormality, and new opportunities for arts and education3. Drama and identity in digital arts cultures4. Digital liveness: Playing with time and space5. Proto-pedagogy, intermediality, and drama making6. Games as co-creative dramatic properties7. The playable archive8. Coding and creativity9. The playable city10. Making research in intermedial spaces 11. The future of making / making the future12. Conclusion13. Notes14. References

This has the potential to be a leading book in the field it is itself participating in defining. What they propose is a significant and unique contribution to a specific area of performance studies.... what [it]does and offers goes beyond the by now ‘traditional’ notions of what constitutes ‘digital performance’ and challenges the established boundaries of ‘performance’ itself.