Performance and Technology Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity

This book, now in paperback, interrogates the interaction between new technologies and performance practice, linking the sensuous contact that exists between the physical and virtual, along with the resultant corporeal transformation. It features writings from international contributors specializing in digital art and performance practices.

Susan Broadhurst is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. She is Professor of Performance and Technology within the School of Arts at Brunel University, West London, UK. She is the co-editor of Palgrave's Studies in Performance and Technology, author of Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (2007), co-editor of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (2006), Sensualities/Textualities Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) and of the online journal Body, Space Technology. She is also on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Performance Arts Digital Media (IJPADM). Susan is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects which involve introducing various interactive digital technologies into live performance. Josephine Machon is the author of(Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance and co-editor of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), Sensualities/Textualities Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (2009) and co-editor of Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. She is a lecturer at Brunel University and member of Brunel's Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance Research, sub-editor of the online journal, Body, Space Technology and on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Performance Arts Digital Media. Amongst her practice-based projects, Josephine is currently collaborating on site-based projects, exploring performance as a medium for research into human relationships with the environment.

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction; Body, Space and Technology; S.Broadhurst& J.Machon
Bodies Without Bodies; S.Melrose
Truth-Seeker's Allowance: Digitising Artaud; S.Dixon
Transformed Landscapes; The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film; J.J.Cook
Saira Virous: Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces; J.Birringer
Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide; R.Wechsler
Materials vs. Content in Digitally Mediated Performance; M.Coniglio
Learning to Dance with Angelfish; Choreographic Encounters between Virtuality and Reality; C.Brown
Kinaesthetic Traces across Material Forms; G.Schiller
Sensuous Geographics and Fugitive Moments; The Interface of Body and Technology; S.Rubidge
Body Waves Sound Waves; B.Edwards& B.Jarlett
Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance; S.Broadhurst
The Tissue Culture and Art Project; O.Catts& I.Zurr
Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance; P.Kuppers
Technology as Bridge to Greater Audience Participation; C.Carson
Afterword; P.Auslander
Index