Name Stephen Schrum | ||
Education University of California, Berkeley | ||
Stephen Alan Schrum (born June 24, 1957) is a theatre director and associate professor of Theater Arts at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. His most current research area being "“The Perception of Presence in Virtual Performance". Schrum has created work on online based performance in virtual worlds, play writing and he has published a variety of books on theatre. Schrum currently teaches courses based on theatre and technology. Alongside lecturing over the past years Schrum has worked for Association for Theatre in Higher Education delivering conferences and workshops based on the topic Theatre and Technology. Prior to this, Schrum attended the University of California. It was there that he received his PhD in Dramatic Art. Alongside his PhD Schrum also has a MA in Theatre from The Ohio State University (1983) and a BA in Theatre from Temple University (1981).
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Online performance
Schrum uses online virtual performance platforms to create performances one being ATHEMOO that "served as a virtual theatre for a fairly large number of online performances". It allowed a new platform for performances to be based rather than in the conventional setting of a theatre space.
Aliens and the Internet is the title of four plays written by Schrum. He created a performance in 1996 called Net Seduction this was one performance that was part of the series and was staged in ATHEMOO, the performance "is set in a Internet chat room and meeting place, with a bar, dance floor, and people to meet". Schrum talked about this performance at a recent online cyposium, and this allowed for "cyberformers to discuss their online performances with other artists, researchers and interested participants" speaking about this performance created in 1996 in relation to today's vast amount technology and new performance platforms that have been created to allow artists to further develop cyberformance's, that are no longer text based, but allow for the creation of avatars.
A new performance that Schrum is working on as of October 2012 is a performance in Second Life in which Schrum aims to "model Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty" through the exploration of technology and performance.
Playwriting
The details of Stephen A. Schrum's written plays have been taken from musofyr Schrum Biography or Interdisciplinary Arts
Publications
The details of Stephen A. Schrum's publications have been taken from either cyposium.net or musofyr Schrum Biography retrieved 26/10/2012
COLLAB-L
COLLAB-L is a listserv that Stephen A. Schrum is the owner of, it has purposely been built to help bring theatre artists together and help form collaborations with each other. Also was created "in order to facilitate the creation of new texts and performance works directly through internet contact".