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This book explores technologies related to bodily interaction and
creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By taking such an
approach, the collection offers a comprehensive view of digital
technology research that both extends our notions of the body and
creativity through a digital lens, and informs of the role of
technology in practices central to the arts and humanities.
Crucially, Digital Bodies foregrounds creativity, the interrogation
of technologies and the notion of embodiment within the various
disciplines of art, design, performance and social science. In
doing so, it explores a potential or virtual new sense of the
embodied self. This book will appeal to academics, practitioners
and those with an interest in not only how digital technologies
affect the body, but also how they can enhance human creativity.
This book explores technologies related to bodily interaction and
creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By taking such an
approach, the collection offers a comprehensive view of digital
technology research that both extends our notions of the body and
creativity through a digital lens, and informs of the role of
technology in practices central to the arts and humanities.
Crucially, Digital Bodies foregrounds creativity, the interrogation
of technologies and the notion of embodiment within the various
disciplines of art, design, performance and social science. In
doing so, it explores a potential or virtual new sense of the
embodied self. This book will appeal to academics, practitioners
and those with an interest in not only how digital technologies
affect the body, but also how they can enhance human creativity.
This innovative collection features essays by a range of
internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices
in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting
exchange between text, body and technology.
This innovative collection features essays by a range of
internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices
in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting
exchange between text, body and technology.
This innovative collection features essays by a range of
internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices
in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting
exchange between text, body and technology.
The term liminal refers to a marginalized space of fertile chaos
and creative potential where nothing is fixed or certain. Liminal
performance is an emerging genre which has surfaced only in recent
times and describes a range of interdisciplinary, highly
experimental, performative works in theatre and performance, film
and music-performances which can be seen to prioritize the body,
the technological and the primordial. Broadhurst argues that
traditional and contemporary critical and aesthetic theories are
ultimately deficient in interpreting liminal performance. This
revolutionary work first surveys traditional aesthetics in the
writings of Kant, Nietzsche and Heidegger and juxtaposes them with
contemporary aesthetics in the writings of Foucault, Derrida,
Baudrillard and Lyotard. A series of case studies follows and,
Broadhurst concludes with a summary description of liminal
performances as an emerging genre. Works discussed in detail
include: Pina Bausch's Tanztheater, the innovative Theatre of
Images of Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, the controversial social
sculptures of the Viennese Actionists, Peter Greenaway's painterly
aesthetics, Derek Jarman's queer politics, digitized sampled music,
and neo-gothic sound.
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