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N e w P u b l i c a t i o n: Performance, Technology, and Science by Johannes Birringer

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on January 1, 2009 at 8:37pm

This ground-breaking work of scholarship explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in dance, design, architecture, fashion, games, music, robotics, telematic performance, and "post-production"-theatre, the author focuses on interactive performance, installation and Internet art. Internationally known practitioners and their works are introduced to formulate provocative ideas on computation, complexity, emergence and self-organizing systems in contemporary peformance which are inspired by biology and biotechnology. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and networked environments. The work of key artists, theatre/dance companies, and laboratories demonstrates how scientific concepts have influenced digital performance, and how performance relates to neuroscience, biology and the life sciences. Challenging common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, this study addresses how artists use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensing technologies not only to enhance the range of expression and visualization, but to bridge the gap between the work and its user. Paperback: 332 pages Publisher: PAJ Publications/New York (December 2008) ISBN-10: 1555540791 ISBN-13: 978-1555540791 List Price $ 24.95 http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/Datech.html Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist; he directs the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, West London. He is author of Theatre, Theory, Postmodernism; Media and Performance: along the border; Performance on the Edge: Transformations of Culture, and co-editor of Dance and Cognition.
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