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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Sep 19

🎭📘💻🔴New Book! 'Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges' explores urgent need to rethink digital access in theatre. 💥🎭
#DigitalAccess #digitaltheater #AICopyright

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/digital-acce...

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎭💻I will be a guest speaker at Futures in Play: AI and Impact in Theatre panel @ArsElectronica -Linz, Austria. Part of a day long conference, STAGED REALITIES examiing how AI is reshaping theatre.
ars.electronica.art/panic/de/vie...

#theatreandai #aiandtheatre #arselectronica

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Aug 15

Program correction (for the record): somewhere in translation, metaLAB (at Harvard) turned into “Postdramatic Theatre Lab.” Great idea—but not my initiative… yet. 💜

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎭🏊‍♀️#opheliamachine just received a moody, gothic, all-female performance at the beautiful, historic
@CendrevT Teatro Garcia de Resende (Évora, Portugal). Such a pleasure to see a new, bold interpretation of the script. #Ophelia
Production photo credit: Pedro Mendes

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Aug 7

🎭🌏Our piece, co-written w Kasia Lech, "TheTheatreTimes Towards Transnational Digital Infrastructure" is now available in Polish in 📕 Teatr – Literatura – Zarządzanie [Theatre - Literature - Management], by @Uniwersytet_GD
wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl/produkt/teat...

Teatr – Literatura – Zarządzanie - Wydawnictwo

Teatr – Literatura – Zarządzanie to wieloautorska monografia podsumowująca badania prowadzone w latach 2022–2024 w Pracowni Badawczej Between.Pomiędzy na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Publikacja łączy persp...

wydawnictwo.ug.edu.pl

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎭💻📲🧠Theatre friends! Coming up on August 21 - free webinar "AI and Theatre: From Pedagogy to Performance" at Digital Theatre+

#digitaltheatre #AIandArt #aiandtheatre

SIGN UP: www.digitaltheatreplus.com/ai-theatre-p...?

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎭💻📲🧠Theatre friends! Join me for [Free webinar] on "AI and Theatre: From Pedagogy to Performance" at Digital Theatre+ Thursday, August 21, 11am ET www.digitaltheatreplus.com/ai-theatre-p...

AI and Theatre: From Pedagogy to Performance | Live Webinar

Join us on Thursday, 21 August at 4pm BST/11am ET for a discussion on the use of AI in the arts, from theatre studies, to what makes a performance 'real'.

www.digitaltheatreplus.com

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Jul 31

🎭🏆The awards we got for The Theatre Times this year finally came, including our Webby - “Internet’s highest honor” according to The New York Times. We were chosen from nearly 13,000 Webby entries this year.

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Apr 24

🏆🎭We are thrilled that The Theatre Times is this year’s Webby Honoree in the Websites and Mobile Sites - Cultural Blog/Website category in the 29th Annual Webby Awards.
#webbyawards

winners.webbyawards.com/2025/website...

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Apr 17

🧠💻▶️#ArtificialIntelligence, #Totalitarianism, and the Future of #CognitiveLiberty" in The Humanist Magazine @americnhumanist
What thoughts do we have a right to express, & what thoughts do we have a right to keep? thehumanist.com/features/art...

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Mar 8

I am so thrilled to give a keynote speech for the 2025 International Conference on Performing Arts Studies at the National Taiwan University of Arts, in Taipei. Title: "Quantum Dramaturgy." It's about my favorite thing: a combination of arts and science. tpa.ntua.edu.tw?p=7822

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Feb 14

💥🎭📖Theatre friends, Opheliamachine is on sale at Bloomsbury Press at 40% in February:
www.bloomsbury.com/us/search/?q...

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Dec 16

📕🎭🏊‍♂️ @NationalTheatre bookstore now #Opheliamachine shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk/collections/...

Opheliamachine Playtext

by Magda Romanska Ophelia's story in a way you've never heard it before, and seven more ways as well.Ophelia is trapped, stuck inside the machinery that has created her consciousness, fighting to be h

shop.nationaltheatre.org.uk

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Dec 8

Today is the 34th anniversary of #TadeuszKantor’s death. The layered histories embedded in his work feel more relevant than ever. To learn more about Kantor, you can find detailed analyses in my two books.….#avantgarde #theatre #Polishtheatre

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Dec 6

This very interesting article on Boguslaw Schaeffer: "Postmodernism, Avant-Garde, and Neo-Dadaism: The Legacy of Boguslaw Schaeffer" was just published and it's available OA. It places Schaeffer in the context of postdramatic theatre:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 23

#Opheliamachine sighting at @NationalTheatre bookstore. via @RoweenaMackay

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 19

🎧🎭 If you missed it: sound exhibit, Pandemic Voices. Various artists, including yours truly, talking about the early days of the pandemic and what it meant for theatre artists and new forms of theatre....🎭
#virtualtheatre #digitaltheatre
performingdigital.studio/viral-theatr...

Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 18

🎭💻If you missed our symposium on Theatre’s Hybrid Futures, it's now online. Moderated by Nina Tecklenburg with Christian Rakow (@Nachtkritik), Magda Romanska (@metaLABharvard), and Ulf Otto (@LMU_Muenchen)
performingdigital.studio/viral-theatr...
#digitaltheatre #hybridtheatre #globaltheatre

Symposium

Explore the symposium at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin where Viral Theatres presented their research findings.

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 15

🎭If you want to learn more about my various #digital | theatre projects @metalabharvard (& outside), check out my short lecture, part of the series "The Lines of Flight: New Laboratories" at The Centre for Experimental Practices (CXP) @HuddersfieldUni #digitaltheatre www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bmA...

metaLAB: Magda Romanska

YouTube video by Centre for Experimental Practices

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 14

⚡️🎭🤖If you missed our panel on 'Chekhov, Robots, and Holograms: Experimentation with Emerging Technologies in The Orchard /Hybrid Theatre Production,' the video is now online #digitaltheatre #transmediaarts #futurestage⬇️⬇️⬇️
howlround.com/happenings/c...

Chekhov, Robots, and Holograms

Experimentation with Emerging Technologies in The Orchard /an auction/, a Hybrid Theatre Production|Join artistic director Igor Golyak and his team of collaborators for a conversation about experiment...

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 14

🏆🎭💻🏆 Catching up with news: @Kasia_Lech & I are so thrilled that TheTheatreTimes.com won the 2024 ATHE-ASTR Award for Excellence in Digital Scholarship from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. This is our third award! 🌐🎭 thetheatretimes.com/thetheatreti...

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Nov 14

👩‍💼🤖My 2024 article, “The Bionic Body: Technology, Disability, and Posthumanism," originally published in Journal Body, Space & Technology is now available in Chinese, in the Journal of Medicine & Philosophy: t.co/R0XrF7MO7x

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Feb 24

🔴My paper on posthuman disability studies, "The Bionic Body: Disability, Technology and Posthumanism" is out in the "Journal of Body, Space & Technology" #DisabilityStudies #posthumanism #BionicBody #biomimicry www.bstjournal.com/article/id/1...

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Magda Romanska @magdaromanska.bsky.social · Jan 28

What does it take to run a large global theatre digital infrastructure @TheTheatreTimes? @Kasia_Lech & I answer: "Out of the wreckage of daily calamities, theatre artists rise up to reclaim their voices, their stories, and their dignity." READ MORE: thetheatretimes.com/thetheatreti...

TheTheatreTimes.com: Towards Transnational Digital Infrastructure - The Theatre Times

With 32 thematic sections, more than 150 Regional Managing Editors, covering theatre in 90 countries and regions, and over 60 media partners around the world, we are the largest global theatre portal ...

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