2020 - Manifesto For Live Digital Art - Freedom Studios

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Live art is, by definition, live. The encroachment of the digital world is seen by some as a replacement for it. But there is a real potential to create work for the ‘live digital’ medium as a separate entity. Below are some ideas as to what ‘live digital’ art should (and could) be:

– learn how your equipment works. Use it to its fullest extent.

– be prepared to improvise.

– be fleet of foot; work for, and with, your audience.

– it can take you into places that you don’t always get to go; the rehearsal room for example.

– don’t aim to simply film a ‘live’ recorded version.

– do not document, create.

– create a community of shared experience.

– fuel world building (after defining what that ‘world’ could or should be)

– create interesting engagement

– gamification can create a sense of ‘live’-ness; individual experience mapped onto mass engagement.

– make it accessible

– open a space for diverse voices

– do not make something which could be definitively made on stage or for film; ‘live digital’ sits in the gap between the two.

– it has to be necessary; every moment has to have a reason for being and a meaning to engage with.

– don’t be tied to geography

– use the imagination of theatre, the realisation of film, and the layers of games

– there should be a narrative but that needn’t be one that confirms with Freytag and friends.

– go to the audience; don’t ‘expect’ them to come to you (think of flash mobs).

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URL: https://www.freedomstudios.co.uk/manifesto-for-live-digital-art/

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