From digital performance to cyberperformance

Transformation, transposition and innovation

Résumé

Digital performance and cyberperformance have in common the use of digital technologies, however, they differ in their creation and transmission processes. In this article, we seek to report a little about the evolution of digital performance to cyberperformance, as well as its rise in the last two years. The pandemic scenario intensified the experience of online communication and brought greater visibility to digital performing practices that, in the field of performing arts, due to the prerogative of physical presence, rarely happened, or were still very experimental. In this sense, pandemics, wars and catastrophes can bring destruction on several levels, but at the same time be the engine for accelerating transition and innovation processes. After presenting a brief theoretical framework on performance/cyberperformance, we will describe some representative case studies of the artistic and performative possibilities of these digital manifestations.

This historical and conceptual review is part of the CyPeT research project, funded by the FCT, which is ongoing. In addition to presenting a brief theoretical framework on performance/cyberperformance, we will describe some representative case studies of the artistic and performative possibilities of these digital manifestations, to shed light on creative initiatives promoted by artistic groups, artists and the academic community following the performing arts, having as a guide the creative processes, audience, strategies adopted and the perception of the potential of the internet for live performance.