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A user's guide to Stelarc, the international performance artist whose extreme performances explore the borderland between bodies and machines.
Author : Julie Joy Clarke
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN :
A user's guide to Stelarc, the international performance artist whose extreme performances explore the borderland between bodies and machines.
Author : Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415283786
Giannachi offers an investigation of the interface between theatre performance & digital arts, investigating the aesthetic concerns of current computer arts practices & showing how they radically question our conventional uses & definitions of time, space, place, character, identity & realness.
Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2000-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761967965
This volume explores the growing range of practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants which have sprung up recently in the West.
Author : David Kreps
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 2007-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1847537219
Developed from a PhD thesis, this book ranges across history, philosophy, sociology and performance to examine the nature of identity in a world where machines are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and of ourselves.
Author : Lucille Alice Suchman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521675888
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Author : Néill O’Dwyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350107328
Shortlisted for the PQ Best Publication Award in Performance Design & Scenography 2023 This book uses digital media theory to explore contemporary understandings of expanded scenography as spatial practice. It surveys and analyses a selection of ground-breaking, experimental digital media performances that comprise a genealogy spanning the last 30 years, in order to show how the arrival of digital technologies have profoundly transformed performance practice. Performances are selected based on their ability to elicit the unique specificities of digital media in new and original ways, thereby exposing both the richness and shortcomings of digital culture. O'Dwyer argues that contemporary scenography is largely propelled by and dependent on digital technologies and represents a rich, fertile domain, where unbridled creativity can explore new techniques and challenge the limits of knowledge. The 30-year genealogy includes works by Troika Ranch, Stelarc, Klaus Obermaier, Chunky Moves, Onion Lab and Blast Theory. In addition to applying a broad scope of performance analysis and aesthetic theory, the work includes artists' interviews and opinions. The volume opens important aesthetic, philosophical and socio-political themes in order to highlight the impact of digital technologies on scenographic practice and the blossoming of experimental interdisciplinarity. Ultimately, the book is an exploration of how evolutionary leaps in technology contribute to how humans think, act, make work, engage one another, and therefore construct meaning and identity.
Author : Arthur Kroker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1442614668
An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish."--Publisher description.
Author : Anne Davis Basting
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472109395
A first-of-its-kind study that explores the intersections of performance and aging. Playwright and scholar Anne Davis Basting explores both aging actors and aging AS acting in a cross-section of American theatrical representations that hope to catalyze shifts in our understanding of age. Illustrations.
Author : Kasper LippertRasmussen
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 8771240691
If biotechnology can be used to upgrade humans physically and mentally, should it be used at all? And, if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion? Can the development be controlled, or is this a Pandoras box that should remain closed? These are but a few of the perplex questions facing scientists as a result of the increasing ability of technology to change biology and, in turn, profoundly change human living conditions. This development has created a new posthuman horizon that will influence contemporary life and politics in a number of ways.The anthology brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines: biotechnology, medicine, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, and among contributors are Francis Fukuyama, Julian Savulescu, Maxwell Mehlman, John Harris and Chris Hables Gray.
Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 32,48 MB
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1478021977
Since its publication twenty years ago, Brian Massumi's pioneering Parables for the Virtual has become an essential text for interdisciplinary scholars across the humanities. Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the internet as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the postwar French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Massumi tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multifaceted argument. This twentieth anniversary edition includes a new preface in which Massumi situates the book in relation to developments since its publication and outlines the evolution of its main concepts. It also includes two short texts, “Keywords for Affect” and “Missed Conceptions about Affect,” in which Massumi explicates his approach to affect in ways that emphasize the book's political and philosophical stakes.