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What is it about?
New layers in storytelling by enlarging the theatrical toolbox: The new Master “Theatre and Digitality” embraces performers, stories, stages and technology alike.
The Master “Theatre and Digitality” includes research and development in the field of digital-technologically supported theatre and performative art. With its curriculum between technology and performance, the study aims to provide students with a broad range of theoretical as well as practical and application-oriented, professionally qualifying skills in the intersection between digital technologies and narratives in analog, virtual and hybrid stages (including topics such as human-machine interfaces or the use of machine learning).
Preview Profile of the Study Programme
Theatre stages have for thousands of years been the home for stories of humans (and other creatures) and their worlds. Theatre and the Performing Arts can permeate the present, the past and the future alike, can build bridges through times, can zoom out or go into close-ups: onto hopes and dreams, enhancing wonders and abysses alike, looking through the surfaces of societies. Theatre as an ever-contemporary artform has at all times kept a curious and at the same time critical eye on the invention of new technologies – wondering whether these inventions could be interesting for being incorporated on it’s stages.
Very often, the answer was “yes”.
(Just think of electricity and cameras!)
Who is the programme suitable for?
Theatre has always been created by storytellers with different expert knowledge.
The Master “Theatre and Digitality” is therefore aimed at students with both artistic and technical backgrounds.
How long does the programme take and what degree do you get?
The Master “Theatre and Digitality” (MA THEAD) is an interdisciplinary, 3 semester, English-language study at the Faculty of Design, starting in the spring semester of 2025. Graduates will be awarded the Master of Arts.
Where does it take place?
The study is implemented in cooperation with the worldwide renowned Academy for Theatre and Digitality of the Theater Dortmund and the Faculty of Computer Science.