MAT200A 03W		Barb Noren Computer driven Performance
Bauhaus Moholy-Nagy    Historical Theater (past)    Theater form today (present)    Theater of Totality (future) Licklider    Man-Computer Symbiosis Synthesis/Realization		Moholy-Nagy: "Theater, Circus, Variety," Theater of the Bauhaus (1924) There are two "attempts at theater form for today" which Moholy-Nagy describes. The first is what he calls the Theater of Surprises by the Futurists, Expressionists and Dadaists, who "came to the conclusion that phonetic word relationships were more significant than other creative literary means, and that the logical-intellectual content of a work of literature was far from its primary aim." The second attempt at a new theater is what he calls "the Mechanized Eccentric," by which he means a mechanism for stage action that goes beyond the limits of humans. In the first attempt, man is still dominant in the theater, and in the second, he is not included in the performance at all.