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Virtual Theatres
Author | : Gabriella Giannachi |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780415283786 |
Giannachi offers an investigation of the interface between theatre performance & digital arts, investigating the aesthetic concerns of current computer arts practices & showing how they radically question our conventional uses & definitions of time, space, place, character, identity & realness.
Body Modification
Author | : Mike Featherstone |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2000-06-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780761967965 |
This volume explores the growing range of practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants which have sprung up recently in the West.
Cyborgism: Cyborgs, Performance and Society
Author | : David Kreps |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847537219 |
Developed from a PhD thesis, this book ranges across history, philosophy, sociology and performance to examine the nature of identity in a world where machines are becoming more and more a part of our lives, and of ourselves.
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Author | : Lucille Alice Suchman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780521675888 |
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Stelarc
Author | : Marquard Smith |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-09-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0262693607 |
A user's guide to Stelarc, the international performance artist whose extreme performances explore the borderland between bodies and machines. Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look survivable—or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, "sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality." Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a device—or "aesthetic adornment"—placed in the artist's stomach and presented through video. Works in progress include the Extra Ear Project, a soft prosthesis of skin and cartilage to be constructed on the artist's arm. Stelarc's work both reflects and determines new directions in performance art and body art. Although there have been hundreds of articles written about Stelarc since he began performing in the late 1960s, Stelarc: The Monograph is the first comprehensive study of Stelarc's work practice in over thirty years. Gathering a range of writers who approach the work from a variety of perspectives, it includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's emphatic "WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW," and Stelarc himself in conversation with Marquard Smith. Taken together, these writers give us a multiplicity of ways to think about Stelarc.
Critical Digital Studies
Author | : Arthur Kroker |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 625 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1442614668 |
An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish."--Publisher description.
The Stages of Age
Author | : Anne Davis Basting |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780472109395 |
A first-of-its-kind study that explores the intersections of performance and aging. Playwright and scholar Anne Davis Basting explores both aging actors and aging AS acting in a cross-section of American theatrical representations that hope to catalyze shifts in our understanding of age. Illustrations.
Mutilating the Body
Author | : Kim Hewitt |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780879727109 |
This title concerns the different ways in which people use their bodies for self-expression: tattooing, piercing, self-mutilation, which serve both individual and cultural needs.
The Posthuman Condition
Author | : Kasper LippertRasmussen |
Publisher | : Aarhus Universitetsforlag |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-07-31 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 8771240691 |
If biotechnology can be used to upgrade humans physically and mentally, should it be used at all? And, if so, to what extent? How will biotechnology affect societal cohesion? Can the development be controlled, or is this a Pandoras box that should remain closed? These are but a few of the perplex questions facing scientists as a result of the increasing ability of technology to change biology and, in turn, profoundly change human living conditions. This development has created a new posthuman horizon that will influence contemporary life and politics in a number of ways.The anthology brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines: biotechnology, medicine, ethics, politics, and aesthetics, and among contributors are Francis Fukuyama, Julian Savulescu, Maxwell Mehlman, John Harris and Chris Hables Gray.