THEATRALIS explores theatre for the net. Traditionally, theatre is defined as a live, text-based performance narrative, experienced by a collective audience. Theatralis investigates the paradigmatic shift of the performative, narrative, technological, and interactive experience through the individual, mediated web interface.

In A Novel of Thank You, Gertrude Stein explores the process of making a novel. As a documentation of the process of thinking, the content is rich in repitition. On the surface it appears random and nonsensical, although it is carefully edited. As it is about the aural and visual patterns of thought the reader becomes an actor.

Theatralis explores the process of experiencing how random and nonsensical content generates thought processes that can always construct a seeming narrative. Humans search for meaning, comprehend through stories. On the net we are creating our collective meaning from our individual stories.

what can it mean
there is a mean
to be meant

e+m riel
1999

THEATRALIS is a 1999 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts for turbulence.org
with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts