Performance and Technology (eBook, PDF)

Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity
Redaktion: Broadhurst, S.; Machon, J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from international contributors who specialize in digital art and performance practices.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 203
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230288157
• Artikelnr.: 44929431

Autorenporträt

PHILIP AUSLANDER Teaches Performance Studies in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA JOHANNES BIRRINGER Independent Choreographer and Media Artist and Professor of Drama and Performance Technologies, Brunel University, UK CAROL BROWN Choreographer, Performer and Writer, and Senior Research Fellow, Roehampton University, UK CHRISTIE CARSON Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ORON CATTS Artist/Researcher, Curator and also Co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA, The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia MARK CONIGLIO Composer/Media artist, and Co-founder of Troika Ranch, the New York City-based Dance Theatre Company, USA JOHN J. COOK Independent Scholar, Turkey STEVE DIXON Professor of Performance and Technology, Brunel University, UK BARRY EDWARDS Director of Optik BEN JARLETT Research Assistant, Brunel University, UK PETRA KUPPERS Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Michigan, USA SUSAN MELROSE Professor of Performance Arts and Research Convenor for Performing Arts, in the School of Arts, Middlesex University, UK SARAH RUBIDGE Reader in Digital Performance at the University of Chichester, UK GRETCHEN SCHILLER Lecturer and Choreographer, Brunel University, UK ROBERT WECHSLER Performing Artist and Researcher; Artistic Director of Palindrome IONAT ZURR PhD Researcher, and Artist-in-residence in SymbioticA, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; Body, Space and Technology; S.Broadhurst& J.Machon Bodies Without Bodies; S.Melrose Truth-Seeker's Allowance: Digitising Artaud; S.Dixon Transformed Landscapes; The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film; J.J.Cook Saira Virous : Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces; J.Birringer Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide; R.Wechsler Materials vs. Content in Digitally Mediated Performance; M.Coniglio Learning to Dance with Angelfish; Choreographic Encounters between Virtuality and Reality; C.Brown Kinaesthetic Traces across Material Forms; G.Schiller Sensuous Geographics and Fugitive Moments ; The Interface of Body and Technology; S.Rubidge Body Waves Sound Waves; B.Edwards& B.Jarlett Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance; S.Broadhurst The Tissue Culture and Art Project; O.Catts& I.Zurr Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance; P.Kuppers Technology as Bridge to Greater Audience Participation; C.Carson Afterword; P.Auslander Index

Rezensionen

'...a timely and informative survey of digital performance practices.' - Tracey Warr, editor of The Artist's Body

'...an enjoyable, well-researched, inspiring book that everybody with a keen interest in performance and technology should consider reading.' - Iryna Kuksa, New Theatre Quarterly

'Broadhurst and Machon's volume provides a snapshot of a relatively nascent scene, and an opportunity to survey both its strengths and weaknesses...' - Paul Rae, Contemporary Theatre Review