Performing presence : between the live and the simulated / Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giannachi, Gabriella.

Contributor:

Kaye, Nick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Psychological aspects.

Theater.

Performance--Psychological aspects.

Performance.

Performance art.

Physical Description:

xix, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

Performing presence: between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence.

Developed as part of a major research project led by Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye, and funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, Performing presence poses questions over the nature of action, identity and self in the relationship with media forms, while engaging with art, media and performance theory; current discourses in science and presence research in virtual and mixed reality environments. The artists included in the project are leading international figures in their respective fields, whose work exemplifies contemporary concerns with performance, technology and presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality performance and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. Performing presence combines extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in order to provide specific insight into these engagements with contemporary practices and concepts presence.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners of theatre and performance, contemporary art, media, new media and technology. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 introduction Performing presence 1

2 tracing Lynn Hershman Leeson 26

3 emergence / Gary Hill Hill, Gary 61

4 distance / Paul Sermon Sermon, Paul 93

5 simulation / CAVE 118

6 ghosting / Tony Oursler Oursler, Tony 150

7 disjunction The Builders Association 178

8 pervasiveness Blast Theory and Mixed Reality Laboratory 211

9 conclusion Presence and recovery 236.

ISBN:

9780719080043

0719080045

OCLC:

687699251