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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456612203321

Titolo

Interfaces of performance / / edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, University of Hull, Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University if London, Rachel Zerihan, Queen Mary, University of London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Farnham, England ; ; Burlington, United State : , : Ashgate, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-317-11461-2

1-317-11460-4

1-282-34442-0

9786612344428

0-7546-9843-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities

Disciplina

700.105

Soggetti

Technology and the arts

Performing arts - Technological innovations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Preface; Introduction; 1 Creative Media: Performance, Invention, Critique; Part 1 Environments; 2 Environments, Interactions and Beings: The Ecology of Performativity and Technics; 3 Blurring the Boundaries: Performance, Technology and the Artificial Sublime - An Interview with Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli, igloo; Part 2 Bodies; 4 ORLAN-Vertigo/Self-Touching-You; 5 The Path to Silence; Part 3 Audiences; 6 Reactivation: Performance, Mediatization and the Present Moment

7 Moving Audiences: Strategies of Exposure in the Work of Gob Squad8 How to Kidnap your Audiences: An Interview with Matt Adams from Blast Theory; Part 4 Politics; 9 The Tendency to 'Trans-': The Political Aesthetics of the Biogrammatic Zone; 10 Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Ethno-Techno Politics; 11 Performative Science in an Age of Specialization: The Case of Critical Art Ensemble; Part 5 Affect; 12 Affective Connection; 13 Love at First Byte; Conclusion; Bibliography;



Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays and interviews investigates current practices that expand our understanding and experience of performance through the use of state-of-the-art technologies. It brings together leading practitioners, writers and curators who explore the intersections between theatre, performance and digital technologies, challenging expectations and furthering discourse across the disciplines.