potentials for drama on the internet

[Adam Blatner]

 Dear Colleagues in Psychodrama, Drama Therapy, Drama-in-Education, Applied Theatre, and related fields: 
         I am looking for others who may share my interest in exploring the potential of the interface of applied drama (i.e., improvised and interactive) and the internet (also known as virtual space). Perhaps we can create a "col-laboratory."  Might virtual space have any potential as a therapeutic and psychodramatic medium? -- or as a medium for variations on sociodrama or axiodrama? 
 
    I envision a conference call in February if we get a critical mass of respondents. Then we'll post ideas and experiments to 
 http://sites.google.com/site/psychodramavirtualexperiments/.  
       From these conversations it is hoped that a series of virtual experiments will evolve, at which point we will move to 
 SecondLife, (one of the more widely known virtual social media); or ActiveWorlds to enact and analyze them. 
      Seasoned psychodramatists and drama therapy clinicians are needed, and will be an important part of what makes this 
> forum worthwhile. Everyone is entitled to the intellectual property that this forum generates for the purpose of publishing. Please send email if you are interested in joining to me, Susan Imholz ( susan.imholz at pepperdine.edu  ). I'm currently the Acting Director of the Educational Technologies Program at Pepperdine University, and graduate of the MIT Media Lab as well as Lesley Universities Expressive Therapies Program.  (Adam Blatner suggested we "run it up the flagpole and see who salutes." ) 

    To warm you up, I have just created a new igoogle web site dedicated to this effort. The sole purpose of the web site is to chronicle the conversations and experiments that develop from the collaboratory. Please visit  http://sites.google.com/site/psychodramavirtualexperiments/  If you have specific papers you would like to post in this space, let me know. I'm putting together a reading list under the header of READINGS. Best wishes for a happy holiday, Susan 
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