Screen LibraryDigital performance：a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation
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MIT Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Publication Dates: | c2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leonardo |
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| Carrier Form: | xv, 809 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0262042355 (alk. paper) 9780262042352 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J0 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/D621 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [737]-776) and index. 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. |