Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

✍ Scribed by Susan Broadhurst, Josephine Machon

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 224
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This original and timely collection features writings from international contributors who specialize in digital art and performance practices (including Johannes Birringer, Robert Weschler and Philip Auslander). There are few writings per se that attempt to interrogate the interaction between new technologies and performance practice. Furthermore, none have so far linked the sensuous contact that must exist between the physical and virtual, together with the resultant corporeal transformation. In certain technological practices, physicality is both transcended and ludically inscribed - the play (jouer) being all. Consequently, digital practices potentiate creative and aesthetic possibilities and demand new perceptive strategies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Editors......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 11
Introduction: Body, Space, and Technology......Page 16
1 Bodies Without Bodies......Page 22
2 Truth-Seeker’s Allowance: Digitising Artaud......Page 39
3 Transformed Landscapes: The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film......Page 52
4 Saira Virous: Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces......Page 64
5 Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide......Page 81
6 Materials vs Content in Digitally Mediated Performance......Page 99
7 Learning to Dance with Angelfish: Choreographic Encounters Between Virtuality and Reality......Page 106
8 Kinaesthetic Traces Across Material Forms: Stretching the Screen’s Stage......Page 121
9 Sensuous Geographies and Other Installations: Interfacing the Body and Technology......Page 133
10 Body Waves Sound Waves: Optik Live Sound and Performance......Page 148
11 Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance......Page 162
12 The Tissue Culture and Art Project: The Semi-Living as Agents of Irony......Page 174
13 Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance......Page 190
14 Technology as a Bridge to Audience Participation?......Page 202
Afterword: Is There Life after Liveness?......Page 215
Index......Page 220