[dance-tech] Re: new book/Performance, Technology & Science

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 P r e s s  R e l e a s e                                                       
    December 2008

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Performance, Technology, and Science
by
Johannes Birringer

This ground-breaking work of scholarship explores convergences  
 between performance and science through an investigation of new  
technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In  
tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular  
history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range  
of practices in dance, design, architecture, fashion, games, music,  
robotics, telematic performance, and "post-production"-theatre, the  
author focuses on interactive performance, installation and Internet  
art.

Internationally known practitioners and their works are introduced  
to formulate provocative ideas on computation, complexity, emergence  
and self-organizing systems in contemporary peformance which are  
inspired by biology and biotechnology. Wide-ranging and richly  
illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the  
aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented  
virtual and networked environments.

The work of key artists, theatre/dance companies, and laboratories  
demonstrates how scientific concepts have influenced digital  
performance, and how performance relates to neuroscience, biology  
and the life sciences. Challenging common assumptions about  
embodiment and the digital, this study addresses how artists use  
artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensing technologies  
not only to enhance the range of expression and visualization, but  
to bridge the gap between the work and its user.

Paperback: 332 pages
Publisher: PAJ Publications/New York (December 2008)
ISBN-10: 1555540791
ISBN-13: 978-1555540791
List Price   $ 24.95

http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/Datech.html

Johannes Birringer is a choreographer and media artist; he directs  
the Centre for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel  
University, West London. He is author of Theatre, Theory,  
Postmodernism; Media and Performance: along the border; Performance  
on the Edge: Transformations of Culture, and co-editor of Dance and  
Cognition.




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School of Media Arts and Imaging
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
University of Dundee
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