The theatre as a model of landscape

Prerequisites:
  • Previous lesson 'The theatre as a model of space' 
Objectives:
  • To proceed in the history of concepts related to vision, amon others of the theatre as a model; to study multimedia simulations of landscapes.
Description:
  • The lesson will be based on images of landscapes and texts about landscapes dating from the period when pictorial modes of vision developed (the 18th century), in order to compare both types of evidence on the history of perception

Questions
DESCRIPTIONS OF LANDSCAPES AND CITYSCAPES IN THEATRICAL TERMS
The spatial structure of theatre scenery was a paradigm for the perception of landscapes; this is visible both in the landscapes and in texts expressing the pictorial view of the landscape

 
  • Landscape and the theatre

Landscapes and townscapes were structured in forms evocative of stage sets. 

  • Philosophers, writers, and the stage as a model of vision

This superimposition of the theatre and the landscape as models of vision is also apparent in texts, both discursive and fictional.
THE THEATRE OF COMPUTERS
Nowadays, the theatre has served as an analogy for the new type of space created by computer interfaces.  

 
  • Interface as theatre

Some thinkers have put forward analogies between computing interfaces and the theatre.

  •  Interface design as theatre

Present-day web-authoring software is also based on the theatrical metaphor
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