Performance and technology: practices of virtual embodiment and interactivity

This book, now in paperback, interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that exists between the physical and virtual, along with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from international contributors specializing in digitalart and performance practices. JOSEPHINE MACHON is the author of (Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance and Co-editor of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006), Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (2009) and Co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. She is a lecturerat Brunel University and member of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance Research, Sub-Editor of the online journal, Body, Space & Technology and on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media. Amongst her practice-based projects, Josephine is currently collaborating on site-based projects, exploring performance as a medium for research into human relationships with the environment. SUSAN BROADHURST is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. She is Professor of Performance and Technology within the School of Arts at Brunel University, West London, UK. She is the Co-editor of Palgrave's Studies in Performance and Technology, author of Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (2007), Co-editor of Performance and Technology: Practicesof Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (2006), Sensualities/Textualities & Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (Palgrave MacMillan, 2009) and of the online journal Body, Space & Technology. She is also on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (IJPADM). Susan is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects entitled, which involve introducing various interactive digital technologies into live performance. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Notes on Contributors - Preface - 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 GreaterAudience Participation;' C.Carson' - Afterword; 'P.Auslander' - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-29365-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés