Entangled Technology and the Transformation of Performance

Name: Entangled Technology and the Transformation of Performance
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ISBN: 9780262195881

ISBN-10: 0262195887

ISBN-13: 9780262195881

Edition: 2010

Authors: Chris Salter, Peter Sellars

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This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technologyâ€™s influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled, Chris Salter shows that technologies, from the mechanical to the computationalâ€”from a "ballet of objects and lights" staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled "responsive environments"â€”have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater, music, dance, the visual and media arts, architecture, and other fields; explores the political, social, and economic context for the…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/12/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 500
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English



Foreword



Preface: A Reader's Manual for Entangled


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Space 1: Scene/Machine (1876-1933)



Space 2: Media Scenographies (1950-)



Performative Architectures



The Projected Image: Video, Film, and the Performative Screen



Sound



Bodies



Machines/Mechanicals



Interaction


Conclusion: The Everyday


Notes


Glossary


References


Name Index


Subject Index