Digital Resources for Practice-based Research: The New Comedy Masks Project
Author: Richard Williams
Source: Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 19, Number 3, September 2004 , pp. 415-426(12)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Abstract:
The New Comedy Masks project deals with objectsminiature ancient theatre masksof immense cultural significance, and with textsthe comedies of Menanderthat are at the origins of the European comic tradition. By 3D scanning the miniatures and enlarging them to life-size, the project has initiated a programme of practice-based research in the studio, leading to live performances that are the first to use objectively reconstructed ancient masks. The paper describes the considerations that apply at different stages of the process, from the digitization of the artifact to mask-construction and performance experimentation.Document Type: Research article
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