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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dixon, Steve
Otros Autores: Smith, Barry, 1944-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2007.
Colección:Leonardo book series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.