Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-27053-4 (ISBN)
This book examines the artist as activist and producer of avatars, and how digital doubles, artificial intelligence and semi-automated politics are problematizing and expanding our discussions of identity. Using a range of examples in theatre, film and internet-based performance practices, chapters examine the uncertain boundaries of networked ‘informational selves’ in mediatized cultures, the impacts of machine algorithms, apps and the consequences of digital legacies. Case studies include James Cameron’s Avatar, Blast Theory’s Karen, Ontroerend Goed’s A Game of You, Randy Rainbow’s online videos, Sisters Grimm’s Calpurnia Descending, Dead Centre’s Lippy and Chekhov’s First Play and Jo Scott’s practice-as-research in ‘place-mixing’.
This is an incisive study for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the wider conversations around identity-formation in postdigital cultures.
Liam Jarvis is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Essex, UK. Karen Savage is Head of the School of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln, UK.
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Postdigitality: "Isn’t it all 'Intermedial'?" Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK, and Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK
Chapter 1: Avatars, Apes, and the 'Test' of Performance Capture, Ralf Remshardt , University of Florida, USA
Chapter 2: Performativity 3.0: Hacking Postdigital Subjectivities, William W. Lewis, Purdue University, USA
Chapter 3: Randy Rainbow’s Musical and Social Media Activism: (Digital) Bodyguards and Politicising/Weaponising Audiences, Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK
Chapter 4: Deepfake-ification: A Postdigital Aesthetics of Wrongness in Deepfakes and Theatrical Shallowfakes Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK
Chapter 5: The Glitch, The Diva, and Coming Back Out: Aging and Postdigital Identity, Asher Warren, University of Tasmania, Australia
Chapter 6: Voicing Identity: Theatre Sound and Precarious Subjectivities, Lynne Kendrick, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK and Yaron Shylydkrot, University of Sheffield, UK
Chapter 7: Postdigital Place-Mixing in the Wild City Jo Scott, University of Salford, UK
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| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 15 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-27053-9 / 1350270539 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-27053-4 / 9781350270534 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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