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

Author: Steve Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Steve Dixon
ISBN: 0262042355 9780262042352
OCLC Number: 70199937
Description: xv, 809 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Responsibility: Steve Dixon ; with contributions by Barry Smith.

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