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" Digital performance : "
Steve Dixon ; with contributions by Barry Smith
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BL
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626205
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Dixon, Steve
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Digital performance : : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation /\ Steve Dixon ; with contributions by Barry Smith
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Leonardo
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xv, 809 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0262042355 (alk. paper)
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: 9780262042352 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [737]-776) and index
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| Contents
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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
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In the past decade digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. This text traces the evolution of these practices, and presents accounts of key practitioners and performances
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Technology and the arts
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Digital media
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Arts, Modern-- 20th century
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Performing arts-- History-- 20th century
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700/.285
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NX180.T4D538 2007
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Smith, Barry,1944-
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