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David Z. Saltz, Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Georgia
David Z. Saltz is Associate Professor of Drama at the University of Georgia, where he is the founding director of the Interactive Performance Laboratory. His research focus, both as a scholar and practitioner, is the interaction between live performance and digital media. He is Principal Investigator of Virtual Vaudeville, a large-scale research project funded by the National Science Foundation to simulate a nineteenth century vaudeville performance on the computer. He has directed a series of productions incorporating interactive media, including motion capture, into live theatre, and has created interactive sculptural installations that have been exhibited nationally.
His essays on performance theory and interactive media have appeared in over 18 scholarly books and journals including The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Theatre Research International, Performance Research and The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance, and he is co-editor of the book Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theatre and Performance, forthcoming from the University of Michigan Press.
Professor Saltz received his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has taught at the College of William and Mary and SUNY Stony Brook. He is currently Secretary and Chair of the Electronic Technology Committee for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
