Performance and Technology

PHILIP AUSLANDER Teaches Performance Studies in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA JOHANNES BIRRINGER Independent Choreographer and Media Artist and Professor of Drama and Performance Technologies, Brunel University, UKCAROL BROWN Choreographer, Performer and Writer, and Senior Research Fellow, Roehampton University, UKCHRISTIE CARSON Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKORON CATTS Artist/Researcher, Curator and also Co-founder and Artistic Director of SymbioticA, The Art & Science Collaborative Research Laboratory, School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of Western AustraliaMARK CONIGLIO Composer/Media artist, and Co-founder of Troika Ranch, the New York City-based Dance Theatre Company, USAJOHN J. COOK Independent Scholar, TurkeySTEVE DIXON Professor of Performance and Technology, Brunel University, UKBARRY EDWARDS Director of OptikBEN JARLETT Research Assistant, Brunel University, UKPETRA KUPPERS Associate Professor in the English Department, University of Michigan, USASUSAN MELROSE Professor of Performance Arts and Research Convenor for Performing Arts, in the School of Arts, Middlesex University, UKSARAH RUBIDGE Reader in Digital Performance at the University of Chichester, UKGRETCHEN SCHILLER Lecturer and Choreographer, Brunel University, UKROBERT WECHSLER Performing Artist and Researcher; Artistic Director of PalindromeIONAT ZURR PhD Researcher, and Artist-in-residence in SymbioticA, Australia

'...a timely and informative survey of digital performance practices.' - Tracey Warr, editor of The Artist's Body '...an enjoyable, well-researched, inspiring book that everybody with a keen interest in performance and technology should consider reading.' - Iryna Kuksa, New Theatre Quarterly 'Broadhurst and Machon's volume provides a snapshot of a relatively nascent scene, and an opportunity to survey both its strengths and weaknesses...' - Paul Rae, Contemporary Theatre Review

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; Body, Space and Technology; S.Broadhurst& J.Machon Bodies Without Bodies; S.Melrose Truth-Seeker's Allowance: Digitising Artaud; S.Dixon Transformed Landscapes; The Choreographic Displacement of Location and Locomotion in Film; J.J.Cook Saira Virous : Game Choreography in Multiplayer Online Performance Spaces; J.Birringer Artistic Considerations in the Use of Motion Tracking with Live Performers: A Practical Guide; R.Wechsler Materials vs. Content in Digitally Mediated Performance; M.Coniglio Learning to Dance with Angelfish; Choreographic Encounters between Virtuality and Reality; C.Brown Kinaesthetic Traces across Material Forms; G.Schiller Sensuous Geographics and Fugitive Moments ; The Interface of Body and Technology; S.Rubidge Body Waves Sound Waves; B.Edwards& B.Jarlett Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction, and Performance; S.Broadhurst The Tissue Culture and Art Project; O.Catts& I.Zurr Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance; P.Kuppers Technology as Bridge to Greater Audience Participation; C.Carson Afterword; P.Auslander Index