Digital Practices Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performa
This title offers insight into a range of art and performance practices that have emerged as a result a more technological world. These practices are integral to alternative and mainstream performance culture and the author explores their aesthetic theori
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Digital Practices Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology Susan Broadhurst
© Susan Broadhurst 2007 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2007 978-0-230-55313-2
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For my mother . . . We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets)
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Contents List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgements
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1 The Digital: A Preliminary View
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Theoretical overview Digital performance
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2 Selective Aesthetic Approaches
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Merleau-Ponty Lyotard Derrida Deleuze
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3 Neuroesthetics
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Visual perception A neuroesthetic approach Art and perception Consciousness and the digital
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4 Live Performance and the Digital Intelligence, interaction, reaction and performance: The Jeremiah project Digital dance, evolution and chance: Merce Cunningham’s BIPED Virtuality, cybernetics and the post-human: Stelarc’s obsolete body
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5 Digital Sound, New Media and Interactive Performa
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