Helen Varley Jamieson
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Helen Varley Jamieson is a digital media artist, playwright, performer, director and producer from New Zealand. She "is engaged in an ongoing exploration of the collision between theatre and the internet."[1] Since 1997 she has been working on the internet professionally.[2] In the year 2000 Helen Varley Jamieson coined the term cyberformance. This term is a combination of two words, cyberspace and performance. Jamieson states that "cyberformance can be located as a distinct form within the subsets of networked performance and digital performance, and within the overall form of theatre, as it is a live performance form with an audience that is complicit in the completion of the work in real time."[3]
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Born | 1966 Dunedin, New Zealand |
Nationality | New Zealand |
Education | Bachelor of Arts (English Literature and Theatre), University of Otago, 1992; Master of Arts (Research), Queensland University of Technology, 2008 |
Known for | cyberformance, new media art, net art, digital art, theatre, writing |
Cyberformances are "live theatrical performances in which remote participants are able to work together in real time through the medium of the internet."[4] In her Master Thesis, Jamieson states that "cyberformance, like all forms of theatre and artistic expression, offers a means to approach and respond to the changing world we exist in."[3]
In 2008 Helen Varley Jamieson completed her MA (research) degree in Cyberformance from Queensland University of Technology entitled "Adventures in Cyberformance: experiments at the interface of theatre and the internet."[5]