Performing presence
Subtitle: between the live and the simulated
By: Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye
Contributors: Kaye, Nick
Publisher: Manchester University Press; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719080043
Subjects: Performance; Performance art; Theater; Psychological aspects
Description: Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality performance and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. Performing Presence combines extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in order to provide specific insight into these engagements with contemporary practices and concepts presence.