뉴미디어 씨어터의 미학적 특성 연구 : 빌렘 플루서와 레프 마노비치의 이론적 프레임을 중심으로

초록

This study analyses the aesthetic characteristics of New Media and New Media Theatre that have emerged based on digital technologies of the Internet. The media theories of Vilém Flusser and Lev Manovich, applied as a framework for analysis, help us to understand digital technologies that are difficult to interpret through traditional theatre aesthetics. Developments in digital technologies and new media environments have fundamentally changed the way theatre is presented and the audience experience, pushing theatre away from its traditional textual focus and expanding its outreach through multimedia and interactive performance forms. The main findings of the study are as follows. First, the relationship between new media art and theatre is explored, and the concept of new media theatre is defined. Then, through Flusser’s theory of communication and code, we examine how human communication changes with technology and culture, and analyse the changes in communication in a technological image environment. Based on Manovich’s five principles of new media (numerical reproduction, modularity, automation, variability, and sign transformation), we explore the narrative structure and stage production characteristics of new media theatre, and analyse how software and automation are applied to create theatre. Through this, the aesthetic characteristics of new media theatre are derived into three categories: 1) the expansion of theatrical communication through technological images, 2) narrative transformation through modularity and variability, and 3) programmed staging and automation. This study highlights how new media theatre expands and transforms the interaction of actors, space, and audience, which are the essential elements of traditional theatre, and suggests new aesthetic possibilities brought about by the convergence of digital technology and theatre. In doing so, it aims to contribute to laying the theoretical foundations for future research and creation of new media-based performances.

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