No performance’s land? Three days Conference & Performance CRIA Lisbon, 15-17th April 2011 IUL (Lisbon University Institute) Culturgest Exploring the limits and boundaries for both an onthology of performance and the conceptualization of its disciplinary field, in aesthetics and social sciences, we aim to interrogate the...
Genevieve Belleveau (b. Bemidji, MN USA ) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She studied visual art, voice and theatre at Bennington College. She explores self disclosure, community and desire through live performance, video, intervention, installation, original music and networked media. The heart of her work...
We had another busy week on the network with over 100 members joining us! We started discussions of the book Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance. Its been slow going as people rush to read the book, but we can take as long as we want to...
[amazonify]1403961700[/amazonify] For more than forty years, Tadashi Suzuki has been a unique and vital force in both Japanese and Western theater, creating and directing many internationally acclaimed productions including his famous production of The Trojan Women, which subsequently toured around the world. An integral part...
Tom Sellar, Editor of Theater Magazine discusses the journal's inception, notable special issues, the journal's editorial vision/direction, and what he's looking for in submissions. Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually and more than 40 journals. This places the Press's books publishing program among the...
[amazonify]0415773539[/amazonify]Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander's ground-breaking book has helped to...
6F3SBUQ29E4 About: (From the website) The letter begins: “An Anthology of Optimism is a pre-emptive celebration of a critical optimism we tentatively hope will increase in the twenty-first century.” We have sent this letter out to writers, artists, thinkers, scientists, politicians, business people, etc. all over the world. The...
Sounding New Media examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. Frances Dyson takes an historical approach, focusing on...
Long before e-mail and the Internet permeated society, Roy Ascott, a pioneering British artist and theorist, coined the term "telematic art" to describe the use of online computer networks as an artistic medium. In Telematic Embrace Edward A. Shanken gathers, for the first time, an...
We've added a few books on new media and technology to our curated books page. [table id=1 /]...
Intermediality: the incorporation of digital technology into theatre practice, and the presence of film, television and digital media in contemporary theatre is a significant feature of twentieth-century performance. Presented here for the first time is a major collection of essays, written by the Theatre and...
About: [amazonify]0262524643[/amazonify]The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings,...