In light of current limits on production funding,
artists struggle to implement conventional,
labor-intensive solutions to production.
theater technology,
as all technology,
is evolving rapidly
as the techniques of
visual image production
expand in a digital age.
With a few significant exceptions,
this expanding technology
fails to serve important
theatrical experimentation.
The theatrical avant-garde
often rejects the technological
for two reasons,
its expense,
and a fear of becoming mastered
by the technology itself.
I feel a strong mandate
to work with new technologies
to develop methods
of using digitally produced images
to create environments
not dependent upon extensive labor
aesthetic forms not mastered by the technological
but used in creating new theatrical forms of communication.
I sit here dreaming of developing
or being part of
an Experimental Laboratory Space
a place to play with
new technologies in collaboration with industry.
Thinking of the possibilities
combining theoretical whimsy
with actual practice
developing new forms of image production
serving an aesthetic
rather than merely providing spectacle.
