 Dancing machines, choreographies of the age of mechanical reproduction.
Author: McCarren, Felicia M Published: 2003 The age of high tech is haunted by an image from the last century that developed in the three decades between the patenting of the cinematograph and its turn towards sound: the dancing machine, paradox of the ease of mechanization and its tortures, embodiment of the motor and the automaton, image of fusion and fragmentation. Professor McCarren traces the abstraction and anonymity of the bodies making machines dance, in the codes of modernisms graphic and choreographic, and in the streamlined gestures of industry, avant-garde art, and entertainment. | 
