Digital Remixes
The works of Shakespeare, in both their original printed form and their textual representations have been scanned, photographed, and encoded by a variety of scholars, librarians, and researchers. In addition to these surrogates (so called because they stand in place of the original material object) and digital editions, some scholars have sought to reinterpret Shakespeare for the modern audience by taking advantage of new technologies to produce new and unexpected approaches to the bard.
Play The Knave
Scholars at the University of California - Davis, for instance, created an interactive game to help learners explore the role of performance in Shakespeare's plays. As they explain on their site: "Play the Knave is a motion capture video game for Windows that lets 1-4 players design and perform in scenes from Shakespeare’s plays. Users choose the scene they want to perform and select options for set design, sound, lighting, costumes, and theater space. Then they perform the scene, karaoke-style, by reading the script lines that scroll on the screen." Shakespeare: Word by Word
As part of Shakespeare's 400th-anniversary celebrations, Shakespeare's Globe in London developed a Twitter project called "Word by Word," in which a typewriter attached to a computer program was set to type out Shakespeare' complete works one tweeted word at a time:
"Originally part of 2015’s #PoweredByTweets exhibition at Somerset House, the Word by Word typewriter, developed in association with Pixie Labs, has been reimagined to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Since not all of Shakespeare’s language will be found in real time Tweets, the typewriter will stop when it cannot find the next word – at which point, visitors to the Globe will be asked to help out by tweeting it themselves, using the hashtag #TheCompleteTweets."
