Conversations with Practitioners: How Technology Can Facilitate Collaboration

Abstract

Creative responses to the Classics are one of the most powerful engines that fuels the field of Classical Reception. In the new millennium technology has not only helped facilitate a closer dialogue between practitioners working in a variety of artistic mediums and reception scholars, but it has also widened the dissemination possibilities via open-access websites hosted by universities. This paper testifies to this well-established but still growing phenomenon. It is based on the work I carried out at The Open University, UK as an interviewer for Classics Confidential (2013–2016) and Practitioners Voices in Classical Reception Studies (2014–2018), and as project leader of Classical World New Zealand project (2017–present) at Massey University. I reflect on how this work has shaped my understanding of the reception process itself and enabled me to contribute to the dissemination of information about exciting new case studies in the long reception history of the Graeco-Roman Classics.