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Dramaturgies Of Intellectual Property Law In Read-Write Theatre, Andrew Kircher
Dramaturgies Of Intellectual Property Law In Read-Write Theatre, Andrew Kircher
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Digital and networked technologies have intensified our relationship to knowledge: all the world’s information and creativity are so immediately and personally accessible that they become embodied. Into this moment, a new theatrical practice has emerged, what I identify as Read-Write Theatre (after Lawrence Lessig). In Read-Write cultural production, artists sample and speak through the full spectrum of disembodied data that is the internet—text, video, audio, and images. The artists I include in this critical category are marked by their posthuman relationship to knowledge and, most importantly, the ways that their theatrical work confounds contemporary intellectual property law.
In this dissertation, …