Apologies for cross posting - I thought this talk might be of interest
to list members.
Best wishes
Monday 8th February, 5pm – 7pm
CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge
All welcome
The Intermedia Research Group warmly invites you to attend our next talk
at CRASSH, Cambridge:
Performing Split Selves: Doubles, Cyborgs and Multi-Identities in
Theatre, Dance, Performance Art and Cyberculture.
Professor Steve Dixon’s talk will examine the performance of doubles,
cyborgs, split selves and multiple identities in technological theatre
and dance, performance art and online environments. The talk will be
illustrated with video footage of work by artists and theatre companies
including Stelarc, Paul Sermon, Marcel-li Anthunez Roca, Toni Dove,
Igloo, Amorphic Robot Works and The Chameleons Group. In the paper
Dixon categorises four distinct types of digital double (reflection;
alter-ego; spiritual emanation; manipulable mannequin) and goes on to
demonstrate how cyborg and robot performances explore potent and
conflicting ideas around control, evolution, posthumanism and
dehumanisation. In conclusion Dixon will examine how the multiple
identities people explore in online environments such as Second Life
reflect notions of both a new life and identity liberation, but also a
type of spectral death and identity erasure.
Steve Dixon is a Pro-Vice Chancellor, and Professor of Performance and
Technology at Brunel University in London. His 800 page book Digital
Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art
and Installation (2007, MIT Press) is the most comprehensive study of
the field to date, and has won two international book awards including
the Association of American Publishers Award for Excellence in Music and
Performing Arts. His creative practice-as-research includes
international multimedia theatre tours as director of The Chameleons
Group (since 1994), two award winning CD-ROMs, interactive Internet
performances, and telematic arts events. He is Associate Editor of The
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media and has
published extensively on subjects including digital arts, cultural
theory, performance studies, robotics, and Artificial Intelligence.
A wine reception will follow the talk.
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1156/
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