Moving without a body : digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts /
Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a n...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2013]
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Series: | Technologies of lived abstraction.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: thinking choreography digitally
- Imag(in)ing the dance: choreo-nexus
- To perceive is to abstract
- Digital abstractions: the intuitive logic of the cut
- Remembering the dance: mov-objects
- Can subjects be preserved?
- Can objects change?
- Can objects be processes?
- Thinking the dance: compu-sitions
- Numbered dancers and software ballet
- When memory becomes creation
- A germ of conclusion: in abstraction.