The performing subject in the space of technology
Subtitle: through the virtual, toward the real
By: Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan and Néill O'Dwyer
Series: Palgrave studies in performance and technology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781137438157
Subjects: Performing arts; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism; Performance art; Technology and the arts
Description: "Now that the shock of the virtual has subsided toward a 'new-normal' of computational interference in all areas of life, it is an advantageous moment to reflect on the passage through the virtual and back to the real. Digital culture has developed into a bio-virtual environment in which the categories of the biological and the virtual no longer stand as separate. The contributors to this volume respond to the questions raised by the 'after-event' of the digital through practice-led research analyses of performance processes, philosophical readings of the work of art and technology, and performance studies investigations of the subject in the spaces of technology. The volume examines a wide range of activities, from bio-art to internet child pornography, gaming and social networking technologies to the use of motion-tracking in developing choreography and documentation. The authors draw from diverse perspectives in dance, theatre, performance, film and music studies, digital arts and culture. "--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: 'In the after-event of the virtual'; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, Ne;ill O'Dwyer; title: PART I: PROVOCATIONS: SUBJECTIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY; title: Introduction to Part I; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan and Ne;ill O'Dwyer; title: 1. 'Into the body of another: strange couplings and unnatural alliances of Harlequin Coat'; Burcu Baykan; title: 2. 'The Cultural Critique of Bernard Stiegler: Reflecting on the Computational Performances of Klaus Obermaier; Neill O'Dwyer; title: 3. 'The Flicker at the threshold of societies of control'; Sharon Phelan; title: 4. 'The Right to Be Forgotten and The Image-Crimes of Digital Culture'; Matthew Causey; title: 5. 'Materiality, immateriality and the dancing body; the challenge of the inter in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage'; Sarah Whatley; title: 6. 'Performing (the Subject of) Exteriority: Virtuality, Mimesis, and the Gratuitous 'One Must''; Riku Roihankorpi; title: PART II: PRACTICES: EMBODIED NOTIONS OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY; title: 7. Introduction to Part II ; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan & Ne;ill O'Dwyer; title: 8. 'Not Waving But Drowning: The Affect Of Random Programming On The Creation Of A Digital Performance Work'; Mary Oliver; title: 9. 'BrainExplode! Audiences and agency through the appropriation of Videogame structures'; Dan Bergin; title: 10. 'Relational Works-In-Movement Using The Body Response System'; Maria Coleman; title: 11. 'Dancing With Dirt And Wires; Reconciling The Embodied And The Digital In Site Responsive Collaborative Practice'; Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp And Amy Voris; title: 12. 'Jeanette Doyle: Fifteen Days And Factory Direct At The Andy Warhol Museum: The Relationship Between The 'Immaterial', 'Dematerial' And 'Material' In Contemporary Art Practice'; Jeanette Doyle; title: 13. 'Inscribing Work And Process: The Ontological Implications Of Virtual Scoring Practices For Dance'; Hetty Blades; title: 14. 'Traces And Artifacts Of Physical Intelligence'; Scott Delahunta; title: Index.