/Dear all/ Some of you may be ware of my 10,000 links page on Internet Studies <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/> As a visiting professor at Giessen University's Institute for Applied Theatre Studies <http://www.uni-giessen.de/fb11/theater/> i've set up two resource web pages about distributed/ hybrid/ interactive/ virtual/ performance. The first one is called Virtual Performance Research Area <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfa.htm> It contains some 800 links with short quotes and comments. Second is a Virtual Performance Bibliography <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/perfb.htm> with some 500 links to online publications and some 700 book titles. Of course, both are far from being comprehensive. I even did not manage yet to completely peruse my own archives. But i had to come up with a starting point for my students. As you may notice i'm merging sources from the fields of virtual theatre, interactive art, distributed performance, net art, and dance and technology with scientific research endeavours that might be of relevance for furthering new developments at the crossroads of art and technology. My two courses at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies are called *Theater and Internet* and *The Digital Arena*. The first one explores virtual and hybrid theatrical models dealing with the intimate possibilities of human-computer interaction, the second one looks in the opposite direction and investigates models using awareness tools etc. to develop global stages for -- as i'm calling it -- a *New World Theater* (ein Neues Welttheater). So a reference point for *Theater and Internet* is Igor Stromajer <http://www.intima.org/> (radicalizing a concept of Felix Ruckert on the Net), for *The Digital Arena* Blast Theory <http://www.blasttheory.easynet.co.uk/> For German speakers: Sie sind herzlich eingeladen, an diesen Veranstaltungen teilzunehmen. Es gibt eine Webseite fuer jedes Seminar: Theater und Internet <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem1.htm> Die digitale Arena <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/sem2.htm> In Giessen i'll also working closely together with the Centre for Media and Interactivity <http://www.zmi.uni-giessen.de/> Germany's very first new-founded Research Institute for Advanced Internet Studies. I warmly welcome suggestions, criticism and information. Reinhold Grether <http://www.netzwissenschaft.de/>
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