Dixon, Steve.

Digital performance : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation / Steve Dixon ; with contributions by Barry Smith. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007. - xv, 809 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Leonardo . - Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [737]-776) and index.

Introduction -- I: HISTORIES: The genealogy of digital performance -- Futurism and the early Twentieth-Century avand-garde -- Multimedia theater, 1911-1959 -- Performance and technology since 1960 -- II: THEORIES AND CONTEXTS: Liveness -- Postmodernism and Posthumanism -- The digital revolution -- Digital dancing and software developments -- III: THE BODY: Virtual bodies -- The digital double -- Robots -- Cyborgs -- IV: SPACE: Digital theater and scenic spectacle -- Virtual beauty: the search for immersion -- Liquid architectures and site-specific fractures in reality -- Telematics; conjoining remote performance spaces -- Webcams: the subversion of surveillance -- Online performance: "LIve" from cyberspace -- "Theater" in cyberspace -- V: TIME: Time -- Memory -- VI: INTERACTIVITY: "Performing" interactivity -- Videogames -- CD-ROMs -- Conclusion.

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Technology and the arts.
Digital media.
Arts, Modern--20th century.
Performing arts--History--20th century.

NX 180.T4 / D538 2007