Media Archaeology and Intermedial Performance

Nele Wynants is a postdoctoral researcher in the fields of art and theatre at the Free University of Brussels-ULB and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her work on the interplay of performance, media history and science have appeared in many journals and books. She is editor-in-chief of FORUM+ for Research and Arts.

• 1. Media-archaeological Approaches to Theatre and Performance: An Introduction; Nele Wynants.- 2. Mechanisms in the Mist: A Media Archaeological Excavation of the Mechanical Theater; Erkki Huhtamo.- 3. “Rendre réel aux yeux du public” – Stage Craft, Tricks, and the Féerie; Frank Kessler & Sabine Lenk.- 4. Vanishing Technology: Transparency of Media in Stage Magic; Katharina Rein.- 5. Deep Space or the Re-invention of Scenography: Jozef Wouters on Infini 1-15; Karel Vanhaesebrouck & Jozef Wouters.- 6. Perfumed Performances: The Reception of Olfactory Theatrical Devices from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present Day; Érika Wicky.- 7. Performing Astronomy: The Orrery as Model, Theatre and Experience; Kurt Vanhoutte.- 8. Capturing Bodies as Objects: Stereography and the Diorama in Kris Verdonck’s ISOS; Kristof van Baarle.- 9. Robots and Anthropomorphism in Science-Fiction Theatre: From Rebellion to Domesticity; Kara Reilly.- 10. Cinema’s Savoyards: Performativity and the Legacy of the Magic Lantern; Edwin Carels.- 11. The Art of Anamorphosis: Subverting Representational Conventions and Challenging the Observer; Rudi Knoops.- 12. Mediated Visions of Life: An Archaeology of Microscopic Theatre; Nele Wynants.- 13. The (Not So) Deep Time of Social Media Theater: An Afterword; Sarah Bay-Cheng.