Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared

Our event today went extremely well. It is such a joy to work with such talented people and have such an attentive and fun audience. Thank you all. It’s been a blast!

20241006_HealingInteraction | DDLsquared Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method,

This year I had the joy to mentor two talented and driven students, using co-created research course design. These are learning opportunities that give students a great level of agency in their pleasure of learning.

Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared announces two student-driven learning and research projects The Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared (DDL2) and the artistic research director Antje Budde have in the summer and fall of 2023 co-designed two independent research courses with their respective student co-creators: Tanja Humeniuk and Selina Jia.

Gave a talk yesterday on "Maddening. Real. World. Problems." I talk about some aspects of my lab and touch on Brecht's learning plays as an inspiration. Might be of interest for some.

SCR video talk.mov This is "SCR video talk.mov" by Antje Budde on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Today and tomorrow I will be busy with an interesting workshop, entitled "arttech: Performance and Embodiment in Technology for Resilience and Mental Health" co-organized by Mark Chignell, Jamy Li and myself. This is the first step for our "Play Strong" project development.

arttechworkshop.square.site

In a MOMENT you will be able to witness in real time participate via your avatar in our performance part II Unboxing Images. More info here: https://www.ddlsquared.rocks/20210904-unboxing-images
We will start part II of our real-time live-streamed performance. This time we will reveal the photographs we took with a historical plate camera on Aug.31, 2021 as part of our poetry live-streamed performance. You can enter our virtual exhibition room here: Go to https://hubs.mozilla.com/link/
Enter code 880325
If you are not familiar with moving through virtual spaces, you can watch our tour guide Don Sinclair (who also build the exhibition space) as he live-streams his wanderings on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAKb7pP8Qyg

Unboxing Images

Tadaaa. Won another award, this time in collaboration with my distinguished colleague Jill Carter. This is particularly great during Indigenous History Month, Pride month and on National Indigenous Peoples Day! Yay!