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This talk revisits performances from the mid-Showa Period (1925-1989) in Japan by influential figures in Modern Japanese theater including Senda Koreya, Murayama Tomoyoshi, and Terayama Shuji. Nearly a century ago, these productions foreshadowed contemporary technological advancements and provide a historical context for our current moment&#8217;s techno-optimism. They utilized film, radio, and other technologies to create performances that wrestled with the mediating function of technology and the centrality of the body in performance. 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