Performance and Technology

SUSAN BROADHURST is a Writer and Practitioner in the Creative Arts. She is the Subject Leader of Drama Studies at Brunel University, UK. She is also the author of Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (1999) and Digital Practices: A Critical Overview of Performance and Technology (forthcoming, 2006). She is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects entitled, 'Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance', which involve introducing various interactive digital technologies into live performance.

'...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