Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

✍ Scribed by Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 223
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Bodies Without Bodies....Pages 1-17
Truth-Seeker’s Allowance: Digitising Artaud....Pages 18-30
Transformed Landscapes: The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film....Pages 31-42
Saira Virous: Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces....Pages 43-59
Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide....Pages 60-77
Materials vs Content in Digitally Mediated Performance....Pages 78-84
Learning to Dance with Angelfish: Choreographic Encounters Between Virtuality and Reality....Pages 85-99
Kinaesthetic Traces Across Material Forms: Stretching the Screen’s Stage....Pages 100-111
Sensuous Geographies and Other Installations: Interfacing the Body and Technology....Pages 112-126
Body Waves Sound Waves: Optik Live Sound and Performance....Pages 127-140
Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance....Pages 141-152
The Tissue Culture and Art Project: The Semi-Living as Agents of Irony....Pages 153-168
Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance....Pages 169-180
Technology as a Bridge to Audience Participation?....Pages 181-193
Afterword: Is There Life after Liveness?....Pages 194-198
Back Matter....Pages 199-203

✦ Subjects

Theatre and Performance Studies; Societal Aspects of Physics; Performing Arts; Media Studies; Dance; Film and Television Studies