Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

Author:   S. Broadhurst ,  J. Machon
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
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9781403999078


Pages:   203
Publication Date:   13 October 2006
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   S. Broadhurst ,  J. Machon
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781403999078


ISBN 10:   1403999074
Pages:   203
Publication Date:   13 October 2006
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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


'...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


'...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


Author Information

SUSAN BROADHURST is a Writer and Practitioner in the Creative Arts. She is the Subject Leader of Drama Studies at Brunel University, UK. She is also the author of Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (1999) and Digital Practices: A Critical Overview of Performance and Technology (forthcoming, 2006). She is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects entitled, 'Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance', which involve introducing various interactive digital technologies into live performance.

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