Digital performance : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation

Digital performance : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation / Steve Dixon ; with contributions by Barry Smith.

The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media ha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dixon, Steve
Other Authors: Smith, Barry, 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series:Leonardo book series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1910-2006.
Technology and the arts.
Digital media.
Arts, Modern > 20th century.
Performing arts > History > 20th century.
Arts, Modern
Digital media
Performing arts
Technology and the arts
Aktionskunst
Installation > Kunst
Mixed media
Neue Medien
Performance > Künste
Tanz
Theater
Modern konst > historia > 1900-talet.
Digitala medier.
Scenisk konst > historia > 1900-talet.
Otraditionella konstformer.
Art and Design.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • I: HISTORIES: The genealogy of digital performance
  • Futurism and the early Twentieth-Century avand-garde
  • Multimedia theater, 1911-1959
  • Performance and technology since 1960
  • II: THEORIES AND CONTEXTS: Liveness
  • Postmodernism and Posthumanism
  • The digital revolution
  • Digital dancing and software developments
  • III: THE BODY: Virtual bodies
  • The digital double
  • Robots
  • Cyborgs
  • IV: SPACE: Digital theater and scenic spectacle
  • Virtual beauty: the search for immersion
  • Liquid architectures and site-specific fractures in reality
  • Telematics; conjoining remote performance spaces
  • Webcams: the subversion of surveillance
  • Online performance: "LIve" from cyberspace
  • "Theater" in cyberspace
  • V: TIME: Time
  • Memory
  • VI: INTERACTIVITY: "Performing" interactivity
  • Videogames
  • CD-ROMs
  • Conclusion.

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