ART TECHNOLOGIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THEATRICAL SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT
ART TECHNOLOGIZATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THEATRICAL SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT

Summary/Abstract: The current article is devoted to the issue of art technologization in the context of theatrical science development. The author recognizes that digital technologies are currently one of the imperative dominants of sociocultural transformations. Being developed by a technological progress towards continuous optimization, it gains more and more potential to change different sociocultural spheres, having opportunities to move away from technical inventions of the past. In the 20th century, as a result of a digital revolution, the innovative sociocultural phenomenon – a digital culture, and then its derivative digital art was formed. Eventually, it took the major part of a cultural material generation area. This statement is immediately extrapolated to the sphere of theatrical activity where technological experiments emerged their full blown last century, gaining, however, a new form in the 21st century.Based on this fact, the author made a hypothesis that the field of digital theater is reasonable to get autonomized, primarily for the benefit of theatrical science as from a practical perspective – detachment has already occurred. This hypothesis is proved by a number of arguments that allows determination of the considered category. As a result, conclusion is drawn that fulfillment of two key requirements is important to refer one creative activity or another to a digital theater: this practice shall be immediately connected with digital informational space and the end work of art, i.e. a performance, shall be recognized as a cultural product within one of the art paradigms.

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