Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance

by Chris Salter, Peter Sellars

How technologies, from the mechanical to the computational, have transformed artistic performance practices. This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technology'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 computational―from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled “responsive environments”―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 adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different theater scenography, architecture, video and image making, music and sound composition, body-based arts, mechanical and robotic art, and interactive environments constructed for research, festivals, and participatory urban spaces. Salter's exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging practices―in particular in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of digital art need to master not only electronics and code but also dramaturgy, lighting, sound, and scenography. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for students, researchers, and artists as well as a handbook for future praxis.

460 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 2010

Reviews

[Lette Hass · Rating 4 out of 5]

Después de analizar a detalle, N_Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis, de Chris Salter, encontré Entagled. Muy buen libro, el contenido lo dice:

- 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

"Obsessed in the 1990s by the ocular and the inscribed, the screen and data, now even the new media arts are discovering (or recovering) felt experience, situated context and polysensory affect that cannot simply be reduced to text, code or photons aimlessly floating on the screen"...