Digital Practices Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology

by Broadhurst, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780230553132
• ISBN10: 0230553133
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This work offers diverse theoretical approaches to a range of art and performance practices at the cutting edge of creative and technological experimentation.

Author Biography

SUSAN BROADHURST is a writer and practitioner in the creative arts. She is Reader in Drama and Technology and Head of Drama Studies at Brunel University. She is also the author of Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (1999), co-editor of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (2006) and co-editor of the online journal Body, Space and Technology. Susan is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects entitled "Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
The Digital: A Preliminary View	p. 1
Theoretical overview	p. 2
Digital performance	p. 10
Selective Aesthetic Approaches	p. 19
Merleau-Ponty	p. 19
Lyotard	p. 24
Derrida	p. 29
Deleuze	p. 37
Neuroesthetics	p. 47
Visual perception	p. 47
A neuroesthetic approach	p. 52
Art and perception	p. 57
Consciousness and the digital	p. 60
Live Performance and the Digital	p. 69
Intelligence, interaction, reaction and performance: The Jeremiah project	p. 69
Digital dance, evolution and chance: Merce Cunningham's BIPED	p. 77
Virtuality, cybernetics and the post-human: Stelarc's obsolete body	p. 86
Digital Sound, New Media and Interactive Performance	p. 99
Optik: Contact, impulse and electro-acoustic sound	p. 99
Palindrome: 'Intermedia', collaboration and interaction	p. 110
Troika Ranch: An electronic disturbance	p. 117
Digital Film	p. 131
The Matrix trilogy: 'Bullet time', simulation and virtual cinema	p. 132
Star Wars prequels: The digital force of ILM in Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith	p. 146
Bioart	p. 161
Transformation and communication: Eduardo Kac's transgenic art	p. 161
Wetware and GMOs: Critical Art Ensemble's recombinant theatre	p. 168
Butterflies, Fish and functional portraits: Marta De Menezes's aestheticizing of evolution	p. 177
Conclusion: Digital Practices	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 196
Index	p. 211
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