Performance and Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Bodies Without Bodies

   • Susan Melrose

   Pages 1-17

3. Truth-Seeker’s Allowance: Digitising Artaud

   • Steve Dixon

   Pages 18-30

4. Transformed Landscapes: The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film

   • John Cook

   Pages 31-42

5. Saira Virous: Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces

   • Johannes Birringer

   Pages 43-59

6. Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide

   • Robert Wechsler

   Pages 60-77

7. Materials vs Content in Digitally Mediated Performance

   • Mark Coniglio

   Pages 78-84

8. Learning to Dance with Angelfish: Choreographic Encounters Between Virtuality and Reality

   • Carol Brown

   Pages 85-99

9. Kinaesthetic Traces Across Material Forms: Stretching the Screen’s Stage

   • Gretchen Schiller

   Pages 100-111

10. Sensuous Geographies and Other Installations: Interfacing the Body and Technology

    • Sarah Rubidge

    Pages 112-126

11. Body Waves Sound Waves: Optik Live Sound and Performance

    • Barry Edwards, Ben Jarlett

    Pages 127-140

12. Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance

    • Susan Broadhurst

    Pages 141-152

13. The Tissue Culture and Art Project: The Semi-Living as Agents of Irony

    • Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr

    Pages 153-168

14. Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance

    • Petra Kuppers

    Pages 169-180

15. Technology as a Bridge to Audience Participation?

    • Christie Carson

    Pages 181-193

16. Afterword: Is There Life after Liveness?

    • Philip Auslander

    Pages 194-198

17. Back Matter

    Pages 199-203

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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.

• dance
• Online
• performance
• Sound

'...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

PHILIP AUSLANDER Teaches Performance Studies in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA JOHANNES BIRRINGER Independent Choreographer and Media Artist and Professor of Drama and Performance Technologies, Brunel University, UK CAROL BROWN Choreographer, Performer and Writer, and Senior Research Fellow, Roehampton University, UK CHRISTIE CARSON Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK ORON CATTS Artist/Researcher, Curator and also Co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA, The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western Australia MARK CONIGLIO Composer/Media artist, and Co-founder of Troika Ranch, the New York City-based Dance Theatre Company, USA JOHN J. COOK Independent Scholar, Turkey STEVE DIXON Professor of Performance and Technology, Brunel University, UK BARRY EDWARDS Director of Optik BEN JARLETT Research Assistant, Brunel University, UK PETRA KUPPERS Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Michigan, USA SUSAN MELROSE Professor of Performance Arts and Research Convenor for Performing Arts, in the School of Arts, Middlesex University, UK SARAH RUBIDGE Reader in Digital Performance at the University of Chichester, UK GRETCHEN SCHILLER Lecturer and Choreographer, Brunel University, UK ROBERT WECHSLER Performing Artist and Researcher; Artistic Director of Palindrome IONAT ZURR PhD Researcher, and Artist-in-residence in SymbioticA, Australia

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