Together with the Academy for Theatre and Digitality - the sixth division of Theater Dortmund - Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts is offering a new international degree course from the coming semester. The "Theatre and Digitality" Master's combines digital technologies and performing arts.
Digital storytelling techniques
The programme imparts extensive practical and application-oriented knowledge of digital narrative techniques and dramaturgical possibilities of virtual and hybrid realities, motion capturing and machine learning, sensor technology and robotics.
Prof. Dr Tamara Appel (front left), Rector of Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Marcus Lobbes (front right), Director of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, signed the cooperation agreement for the new degree programme. Dortmund's Lord Mayor Thomas Westphal (back left) and Tobias Ehinger (back right), Managing Director of Dortmund Theatre, congratulated them. Photo: City of Dortmund / Roland Gorecki
Combining art and technology
"There is no comparable offer in Germany or Europe," emphasised Rector Prof. Dr Tamara Appel at the signing of the cooperation agreement. "This degree programme reflects our commitment to aligning education with the innovations of our time. Students have the opportunity to combine art and technology in a way that is both culturally enriching and socially relevant."
Graduates will work as digital storytellers, creative coders or digital stage creators at municipal or state theatres, for festivals or in the business world, for example for events and trade fairs or in the gaming industry. The use of digital and performative narratives is also constantly increasing in museums.
The new Master's programme is aimed equally at Bachelor's graduates from technical, design, stage and artistic disciplines. Teaching takes place both at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts in the Department of Design and in the new building of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality in Dortmund's Hafenquartier as well as in the university's own creative laboratory storyLab kiU in Dortmund's U - and completely in English.
