"Come se voi ci foste". Sulla morfologia digitale della spettatorialità

With a growing number of accesses, the fixation and the usage ofcommunication paradigms of the web 2.0 and the applications for mobiledevices is questioning the concept of mimesis in virtual (and actual) communities.This article proposes some initial considerations on how “mediamorphosis”(Fidler: 1990) as a cultural phenomenon can influence creative processesand spectating in contemporary performing arts. Taking as an example DariaDeflorian and Antonio Tagliarini’s play Il cielo non è un fondale (2017), abackground in media studies, Internet studies, sociology of communicationand digital philosophy is here adopted to analyse the modes of agency of thespectator towards narrative and dramaturgical elements. Looking through theglass of concepts such as “immediacy” and “hypermediacy” (Bolter, Grusin:2000); “space of flows” and “timeless time” (Castells: 1996) and “hiperreality”(Baudrillard: 1994), one can perhaps understand how the act of spectating andthe act of inhabiting the digital environment are deeply intertwined.