I’m currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, where I teach avant-garde theatre and film, contemporary performance, modern drama, and performance workshops, including mask. I’m also affiliated faculty in the Department of English’s Poetics Program and the Department of Media Study, where I sometimes teach intermedia performance and film history. Most of my research and creative work focuses on the intersection of performance and media and how new forms of theatre and performance respond to emerging technologies and digital culture. In 2005, I co-founded the Intermedia Performance Studio – a research and creative collective that develops new work at the intersection of virtual reality, robotics, computer science, and theatre. I’m also a member of the international research group on Intermediality in Theatre & Performance, affiliated with the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT). With this group, I’ve co-edited a new book: Mapping Intermediality in Performance (University of Amsterdam, 2010).
I recently became the co-editor for the new book series, Avant-Gardes in Performance with Palgrave Macmillan. If you have a new book project or proposal in the area of experimental or avant-garde work in theatre, performance, cinema, and other media, I would love to hear your ideas. And as the current Performance Review Editor for Theatre Journal, I’m always interested in reviews of new theatre and performance work, particularly international stagings and festivals. Ping me with any questions you might have. If essay writing in the digital arts and performance is your thing, I’m on the editorial board for the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Technology (link is here), so feel free to submit your ideas there as well.
In 2010, I co-created a new MA and PhD program in Theatre Performance at the University at Buffalo. This new graduate program integrates scholarship and research with performance practice, with an emphasis on experimental work across various fields of theatre and performance, including: intermedia; dance; design; and acting. More information is forthcoming, but feel free to send any questions to my email: baycheng@buffalo.edu.
