Multimedia Stagecraft

Any forms of art aren't isolated from a special historical environment, and they are inevitable to be influenced by the achievements of update technologies, meanwhile kinds of forms of the art are not only influenced but also mingled with each other, it reflected those expressive means, expressive style, skills and materials etc. The process of development of art of drama is the same case. From the early altar,rites,temple to a proscenium stage; From the natural-light of the stage to modern lightings,projection techniques; From the artificial paintings to digital illusive settings; Even developed from stage drama to cyberdrama, all these reflect enlarging changes which modern science brings to the stage art of drama. The scenography that existed in the form of synthesized medium directly reflect the innovation's power in which sciences bring it on expressive method and esthetic style. the modern digital multi-medium technology is endowing scenography with all new vocabulary, such as new technologies,new materials,new mediums, including new visual ideologies, methods of experience and new approaches of communication in space, and it is also changing the entire conceptions and patterns of art of the stage stage. But one thing we certainly believe that whatever the changes of patterns will take place in the stage art of theatre, The drama which is performing publicly and seeing and performing at the same time will still keep its unreplaceable charming,only the conceptions of time and space have been new connotation and denotation.