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Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance - Precarious Intermedial Identities (Hardcover)
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Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance - Precarious Intermedial Identities (Hardcover)
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In the context of the postdigital age, where technology is
increasingly part of our social and political world, Avatars,
Activism and Postdigital Performance traces how identity can be
created, developed, hijacked, manipulated, sabotaged and explored
through performance in postdigital cultures. Considering how
technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals
how we engage in performance practices through expanded notions of
intermediality, knotted networks and layering. This book examines
the artist as activist and producer of avatars, and how digital
doubles, artificial intelligence and semi-automated politics are
problematizing and expanding our discussions of identity. Using a
range of examples in theatre, film and internet-based performance
practices, chapters examine the uncertain boundaries of networked
'informational selves' in mediatized cultures, the impacts of
machine algorithms, apps and the consequences of digital legacies.
Case studies include James Cameron's Avatar, Blast Theory's Karen,
Ontroerend Goed's A Game of You, Randy Rainbow's online videos,
Sisters Grimm's Calpurnia Descending, Dead Centre's Lippy and
Chekhov's First Play and Jo Scott's practice-as-research in
'place-mixing'. This is an incisive study for scholars, students
and practitioners interested in the wider conversations around
identity-formation in postdigital cultures.
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