The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. General Introduction: In the After-event of the Virtual

   1. General Introduction: In the After-event of the Virtual

      • Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, Néill O’Dwyer

      Pages 1-8

3. Provocations: Subjectivity and Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Into the Body of Another: Strange Couplings and Unnatural Alliances of Harlequin Coat

      • Burcu Baykan

      Pages 17-33

   3. The Cultural Critique of Bernard Stiegler: Reflecting on the Computational Performances of Klaus Obermaier

      • Néill O’Dwyer

      Pages 34-52

   4. The Flicker at the Threshold of Societies of Control

      • Sharon Phelan

      Pages 53-68

   5. The Right to be Forgotten and the Image-Crimes of Digital Culture

      • Matthew Causey

      Pages 69-81

   6. Materiality, Immateriality and the Dancing Body: The Challenge of the Inter in the Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage

      • Sarah Whatley

      Pages 82-98

   7. Performing (the Subject of) Exteriority: Virtuality, Mimesis and the Gratuitous ‘One Must’

      • Riku Roihankorpi

      Pages 99-116

4. Practices: Embodied Negotiations of Art and Technology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Not Waving but Drowning: The Affect of Random Programming on the Creation of a Digital Performance Work

      • Mary Oliver

      Pages 125-139

   3. BrainExplode! Audiences and Agency through the Appropriation of Video-game Structures

      • Dan Bergin

      Pages 140-155

   4. Relational Works-in-Movement Using the Body Response System

      • Maria Coleman

      Pages 156-173

   5. Dancing with Dirt and Wires: Reconciling the Embodied and the Digital in Site-responsive Collaborative Practice

      • Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp, Amy Voris

      Pages 174-186

   6. Jeanette Doyle: Fifteen Days and Factory Direct at the Andy Warhol Museum: The Relationship between the ‘Immaterial’, ‘Dematerial’ and ‘Material’ in Contemporary Art Practice

      • Jeanette Doyle

      Pages 187-201

   7. Inscribing Work and Process: The Ontological Implications of Virtual Scoring Practices for Dance

      • Hetty Blades

      Pages 202-219

   8. Traces and Artefacts of Physical Intelligence

      • Scott deLahunta

      Pages 220-231

5. Back Matter

   Pages 232-242

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This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.

• Performance and technology
• Materiality and performance
• Appropriation
• artifacts
• body
• corpus
• cultural heritage
• dance
• dancing
• event
• Museum
• space
• structure
• subject
• video

'The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology challenges perceived notions of 'virtual' and 'real' in a collection of fascinating essays. It explores the ubiquity of technology in both academia and professional practice, emphasising the experience of body/ technology encounters. The first half of the book brings a variety of philosophical approaches to technology, politics and ethics, while the latter half draws the richness of the practitioner's embodied perspective into the bag of analytical tools.' - Sita Popat, University of Leeds, UK

• Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

  Matthew Causey, Néill O’Dwyer

• Coventry University, UK

  Emma Meehan

Burcu Baykan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Dan Bergin, Independent Scholar, Ireland Amy Voris, Independent Artist, Manchester, UK Christian Kipp, Independent Photographer, Essex, UK Natalie Garrett Brown, Coventry University, UK Hetty Blades, Coventry University, UK Jeanette Doyle, Independent Artist, Ireland Maria Coleman, Independent Artist, Donegal, Ireland Mary Oliver, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Riku Roihankorpi, University of Tampere, Finland Sarah Whatley, Coventry University, UK Scott deLahunta, Coventry University, UK Sharon Phelan, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Policies and ethics