SinLab is a new, interdisciplinary research structure that brings together the Performing Arts and New Technology development and aims at the same time for augmented possibilities for artistic expressions and new technology developmen
SinLab is a new, interdisciplinary research structure that brings together the Performing Arts and New Technology development. The major focus of the research lies on the investigation of mediatised living-environments. These will be explored by a research strategy combining technology development and theoretical investigation on mediatisation and digitalisation within the context of the performing arts and stage. The transformation of theatre stage and space going along with the appearance of new technology such as digitalisation will be the main working field of the research process. Theatre stage is not only chosen as a framework for the project because of its quality as a laboratory for the investigation of sense and meaning producing constellations that constitutes an substantial attention towards the present. Theatre stage is also particularly suitable as it represents a mediatised space itself and mirrors mediatisation of contemporary living environments in a double sense: not just as an instrument for scenography but also as a medium of world-making in what mediatisation can be experienced from an aesthetical point of view. Artistic vision aiming for the use of new technology (and inspired by actual trends coming from cutting edge sciences and technology development) and pushing the mediatisation of stage (as in various branches of contemporary digital performance) can be seen as itself as an (explicit or implicit) aesthetical statement on technology-provoked transformations of perception, subjectivization and the symbolic constitution of society. Furthermore it inspires on its part the scientific perspective on technology as it reframes normalised concepts of function and impact of mostly instrumental concepts of mediatisation by and the development and use of technology: The described transformation of the viewpoint provokes therefore new ideas that can be introduced again in the further research and development process.
This double dimension of mediatisation in theatre frames the research strategy of the project: the development of stage-oriented technology inspired by an artistic vision is the starting point that a) stimulates new technological needs and corresponding development activities b) presents an aesthetically inspiring way to deal with technology that impacts and transforms the scientific point of view and c) offers a wide range for reflective approaches concerning the constitution and the production of sense and meaning in mediatised societies.
Digital performance and the "Entanglement" of Performing Arts and Scientific research is by consequence seen as a particularly fruitful setting for a mutual inspiration of the three perspectives.