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Through discursive accounts of my own practice I will explore issues of (dis)embodiment in relation to presence and intimacy as experienced and performed in telematic and virtual environments. At what point is the participant embodying the virtual performer in front of them? And have they become disembodied in doing so? A number of interactive telematic artworks are looked at in detail, establishing casestudy examples to provide answers to these questions. The chapter stems from my telematic experiments in the early 1990s and recent site-specific user-generated performance work to current immerging creative/critical practice in Second Life that polarizes fundamental existential questions concerning identity, the self, the ego and the (dis)embodied avatar.
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Sermon, P. (2012). (Dis)Embodiment. In: Chatzichristodoulou, M., Zerihan, R. (eds) Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137283337_14
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