Hacking and Rehearsing: Experiments in Creative Tinkering.

Hacking – improving software through a process of trial and error – is a mode of rehearsal. Such is the claim made by Miguel Escobar Varela in this article, which he furthers by exploring the similarities between the ways theatre makers and software programmers speak about their crafts. Understandin...

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Publicado en:New Theatre Quarterly Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 68 - 78
Autor principal: Varela, Miguel Escobar
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Cambridge University Press Feb2016
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