Performance and Technology

Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

By: J. Machon (Editor), S. Broadhurst (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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'...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

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Editors	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
Introduction: Body, Space, and Technology	p. xv
Bodies Without Bodies	p. 1
Truth-Seeker's Allowance: Digitising Artaud	p. 18
Transformed Landscapes: The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film	p. 31
Saira Virous: Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces	p. 43
Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide	p. 60
Materials vs Content in Digitally Mediated Performance	p. 78
Learning to Dance with Angelfish: Choreographic Encounters Between Virtuality and Reality	p. 85
Kinaesthetic Traces Across Material Forms: Stretching the Screen's Stage	p. 100
Sensuous Geographies and Other Installations: Interfacing the Body and Technology	p. 112
Body Waves Sound Waves: Optik Live Sound and Performance	p. 127
Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance	p. 141
The Tissue Culture and Art Project: The Semi-Living as Agents of Irony	p. 153
Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance	p. 169
Technology as a Bridge to Audience Participation?	p. 181
Afterword: Is There Life after Liveness?	p. 194
Index	p. 199
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