Theater as Representation

Theater As a Teaching Procedure in Sociology

Legal Action: The Trial As Theater in Aeschylus' Oresteia

Aeschylus' Oresteia is a key text for analyzing the relationship between law and drama both because it includes the earliest surviving instance of a trial scene in western drama and because it is explicitly concerned with the nature of trials, telling a story of repeated conflict that can only be resolved by the invention of the trial as a new form of action. First produced in Athens in 458 B.C...

Information Theater versus Information Reenery Where Intelligence Resides Information Theater

Intelligent behavior of a system is often equated with its ability to perform logical or heuristic inferences. Intelligence is thought to reside in the ability to reene the knowledge base, and thus in the articulation of \new" facts beyond the set of assertions explicitly represented. The fragility and complexity of the inference mechanisms required for this invite attempts at imbuing other com...

Development of Cyber Theater and Cyber Theater Scenario Language

In Japan, most of children haven’t read children’s story (Fairy tales or tales of old Japan) because the high technology video games are more exciting than most of picture books. But they must be effective to bring up the children’s cultivation of aesthetic sensitivity. And we have heard from teachers of elementary schools that most of themes of computer education in school are the operation of...

Computer Theater

The basic argument of this paper is that until recently theatrical performances involving human and computer actors were not possible due to the lack of appropriate computational models for action representation, recognition, and generation. This paper surveys and classiies some recent experiments in computerized performances, and uses this classiication as a framework to establish the importan...