"Theater & Digital Media" is debuting as a focal-point topic at Ars Electronica this year, September 7-11. Theater, for many an epitome of analog, strictly human-based art, has on the other hand always been a forerunner in the exploration of technologies for new forms of storytelling and stage performance. With digital and interactive media and the huge social and cultural impact of social media, a whole new chapter of overlapping interests between performance arts and media arts has been opened which goes…