Discipline and desire : surveillance technologies in performance / Elise Morrison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morrison, Elise

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts and electronics.

Electronic surveillance in art.

Electronic surveillance--Social aspects.

Electronic surveillance.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Discipline and Desire examines how surveillance technologies, when placed within the frames of theater and performance, can be used to critique and reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. The book explores how rapidly proliferating surveillance technologies, including drones, CCTV cameras, GPS tracking systems, medical surveillance equipment, and facial recognition software, can be repurposed through performance to become technologies of ethical witnessing, critique, and action. While the subject of surveillance continues to provoke fascination and debate in mainstream media and academia, opportunities to critically reflect upon and, more importantly, to imagine alternative, creative responses to living in a rapidly expanding surveillance society have been harder to find. Author Elise Morrison argues that such opportunities are being created through the growing genre of "surveillance art and performance," defined as works that centrally employ technologies and techniques of surveillance to create theater, installation, and performance art. Introducing readers to a broad range of surveillance art works, including the work of artists and activists such as Surveillance Camera Players, Jill Magid, Steve Mann, Hasan Elahi, Wafaa Bilai, Blast Theory, Electronic Disturbance Theater, George Brant, Janet Cardiff, Mona Hatoum, and Zach Bias, Discipline and Desire provides a practical and analytical framework that can aid the diverse pursuits of new media-arts practitioners, performance scholars, activists, and hobbyists interested in critical and creative uses of surveillance technologies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Stages 29

2 Streets 64

3 Screens 101

4 Sex 142

5 Skin 183

6 Skies 230.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-350) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472053261

9780472073269

9780472122363

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.6944908

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.