Ross Brannigan

Auckland University of Technology, Communications, Faculty Member

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Ross is both a professional actor/director/writer and an academic. He works on both stage and screen and has an interest in intermediality. His PhD, titled How Then to Act: A Performance as Research investigation into the potentials of expanding an actor's agency was completed in 2018. He lectures in both performance and screen production at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.

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Fusing Stage and Screen in Search of Empathy

The liminal, intermedial space where cinema and theatre come together is still comparatively new ... more The liminal, intermedial space where cinema and theatre come together is still comparatively new territory. This paper specifically explores that space where performance exists, not wholly as stage or screen, for its potential to enhance empathy. The new space affords opportunity to interweave visual aspects – both pre-recorded and of the live performance and to build new practice-centred understanding of how to negotiate the combination of processes involved. An experimental performance was devised to explore the possibilities of combining the cinematically visual and the live. A somewhat constrained version of this is presented here, not just as illustration but as a means of discourse. A heuristic approach has been adopted to allow tacit knowledge to play a substantial role in the shaping of the enquiry. This performance as research exercise is offered as a provocation. It is the first of a series of explorations which will culminate in a full length work. Whether that work will ...

How Then to Act? A Performance As Research Investigation Into the Potentials of Expanding an Actor's Agency

Holding the digital mirror up to nature - a practice-as-research project exploring digital media techniques in live theatre

.................................................................................................... more ...................................................................................................................p6 Background...............................................................................................................p7 Introduction...............................................................................................................p11 Research Issues and Methodology Design.......................................................................p13 Reviewing Research Contexts – What Has Been Written and Done in the Field.......................p22 Creative Processing and Interpretation – the Workshop Process..........................................p36 Interplay between a live, co-present actor and pre-recorded actors – Macbeth...............p37 Manipulating a digital double – The Tempest...........................................................p42 Playing multiple roles both co-present and pre-recorded – Hamlet...............................p47 Motion Graphics and digital soundscapes...............................................................p53 Using a camera live as a tool to communicate intimately with the audience – Hamlet.......p55 The Research Methodology Applied – the Performance......................................................p57 Conclusion – Evaluation and Significance........................................................................p60 References................................................................................................................p65 The DVD component of this exegesis is affixed inside the back cover

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Holding the digital mirror up to nature - a practice-as-research project exploring digital media techniques in live theatre

Is an actor performing live if that actor is out of sight in the wings and appears on stage as a ... more Is an actor performing live if that actor is out of sight in the wings and appears on stage as a computer-mediated representation? Is co-presence with such a mediated embodiment problematic for the performer? This project seeks to explore the use of digital media elements, from the perspective of the actor, in the collaborative process of devising, designing, rehearsing and performing a Shakespearian theatre production. It raises issues of the creative possibilities that applications of new technologies afford and of a changing perception of the nature of liveness. Can digital media techniques usefully enhance the liveness of performance and extend the audience’s experience of the production? Specifically, can it augment their perception of themselves, mirrored on stage? Exploring the usefulness of digital media techniques takes a theatre practitioner into the intermedial, liminal spaces where the two fields converge. These are spaces of possibility where new ways of working might emerge. This thesis is presented primarily as an experimental performance and is contextualised by this exegesis with its written and DVD components.

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Mobile Social Media as a Catalyst for Collaborative Curriculum Redesign

Cases, Trends, and Inquiry-Based Methods, 2015

Mobile Social Media as a Catalyst for Collaborative Curriculum Redesign

Cases, Trends, and Inquiry-Based Methods, 2015

Fusing Stage and Screen in Search of Empathy