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SUMMARY:The Digital Auteur: Technology\, Transmission\, and the Re-Inventi
 on of Greek Tragedy
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DESCRIPTION:Professor George Rodosthenous (University of Leeds) will deliv
 er the guest lecture at this year's Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancien
 t Performance and Reception\, but all are welcome\, attendance at the symp
 osium is not required to join the guest lecture.\n \nIf Contemporary Adapt
 ations of Greek Tragedy established the director as auteur\, the digital e
 ra demands recognition of a new figure: the digital auteur\, for whom tech
 nology is not a scenographic supplement but a structural\, dramaturgical\,
  and performative force. The ancient Greek stage deployed its own technolo
 gies (the mēkhanē\, the ekkyklēma\, and the guilds of technitai) as per
 ception structures shaping audience understanding. Contemporary directors 
 now mobilise real-time video\, immersive sound\, and digital scenography a
 s their functional equivalents. Yet\, these tools intensify the ethical qu
 estion posed by The Bacchae: as we witness suffering through screens and v
 irtual mediation\, do we become\, like Pentheus\, guilty voyeurs? By juxta
 posing ancient technē with digital avatars and real-time mediation\, this
  keynote suggests that the central technology at stake is not the crane or
  the camera\, but perception itself\, and invites reflection on how digita
 l spectatorship might shape our experience of empathy\, attention\, and et
 hical engagement.
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LOCATION:St Hilda's College\, Cowley Place Oxford
SPEAKER:George Rodosthenous (University of Leeds)
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