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)

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Abstract:

The New Comedy Masks project deals with objects—miniature ancient theatre masks—of immense cultural significance, and with texts—the comedies of Menander—that 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

Publication date: 2004-09-01

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Literary and Linguistic Computing is an international journal which publishes material on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching. Papers include results of research projects, description and evaluation of techniques and methodologies, and reports on work in progress.