Video games go to the theater  Brenda Bakker Harger ’82  Summer
2012  Brenda Bakker Harger ’82 wants you to know that she is not
technologically savvy. Not at all.  “To me, e-mail is a
miracle,” she said. “People assume I know how it all works, but
I don’t, and I have no interest in knowing.”  Surprising for a
faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment
Technology Center (ETC), which offers the only master’s degree
in entertainment technology in the country. It sends graduates
out to work in everything from animation and video game design
to robotics.  But Harger is an actor and theater director with a
deep interest in improvisation. She creates experimental theater
pieces that use video and computer technology to make audience
members part of the play. Needless to say, she gets a lot of
help from her tech-savvy students.   “I’m dabbling in
possibilities,” she said, “exploring whether there’s a new,
interactive kind of theater that will attract people like my
students.”  Her ETC students aren