Any idea of new media in performing art?

Answer 1

Mostly it's using newer ways to use our known tools to transport the material.

There is a lot of talk now of the shift to using blogs and sites like youtube to present material and also use it as a promotional tool. Self-promotion is being done via wikipedia as well.

On stage, the ease of video editing software and the dropping price of 5k lumen projectors is finding it's way into every avenue of performance -- currently without much sophistication. This area of art making really needs some thought.

Many of the experimental areas of media manipulation via midi, computers and control desks are beginning to hit the main-stream. Take Mark Coniglio's Isadora program, for example -- one can now easily control several different video projections on the fly during a show and the program itself is at a decent price so any consumer can afford it.

Media will always be the same -- sound and image, live or projected. We won't be introducing smell or taste to the stage any time soon beyond Dinner Theater...