Javanese Theatre as Data

Miguel Escobar Varela

The Contemporary Wayang Archive: Javanese Theatre as Data

Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelJogja miguelescobar.com

Digital Humanities Abu Dhabi #DHAD2017

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Traditional Javanese Wayang Kulit

Wayang Hip Hop

Wayang Hip Hop

http://cwa-web.org/

Standards-compliant metadata and sustainability pathway

PART I. Data-driven research projects

Escobar Varela, M & Parikesit G.O.F., 'A Quantitative Close Analysis of a Theatre Video Recording' in DSH (forthcoming).

Escobar Varela, M & Parikesit G.O.F., 'A Quantitative Close Analysis of a Theatre Video Recording' in DSH (forthcoming).

Networks of Wayang Kulit characters https://villaorlado.github.io/wayangnetworks/html/

Other projects

PART II. Data for creative projects

http://cwa-web.org/dissertation/wayang-dis

PART III. Treating theatre as data

Data is always-already cooked

Data need to be imagined as data to exist and function as such, and the imagination of data entails an interpretive base [...] every discipline has its own norms and standards for the imagination of data.

Lisa Gitelman, “Raw Data” is an Oxymoron, 2013

Intellectual objections to documenting theatre

Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.

Peggy Phelan, Unmarked: The Politics of Performance, 1993.

Data in theatre

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