Call and response: Towards a digital dramaturgy. (1st December 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bridger, Barbara; Carpenter, J. R.
• Is Part Of: Journal of writing in creative practice. Volume 6:Number 3(2013)
• Page Start: 373
• Page End: 386
• Publication Date: 2013-12-01
• Subjects: Writing in art -- Periodicals; Composition (Language arts) -- Periodicals; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Technical writing -- Periodicals; Art and literature -- Periodicals; 808.06605
• DOI: 10.1386/jwcp.6.3.373_1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-5190

Abstract

In support of their belief that the truest test of a methodology is to apply it to a new set of questions/practices, Barbara Bridger and J.R. Carpenter embark on a conversation about Carpenter's computer-­generated dialogue: TRAINS.MISSION [A.DIALOGUE]. As they attempt to find language appropriate to an extended notion of dramaturgy capable of both contributing to and critiquing a digital literary practice, their calls and responses to one another come to perform the form and content of the dialogue in question. The resulting discussion provides an example of putting performance writing methodology into practice.