Digital performance: a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation.
Author: Dixon, Steve Published: 2007 The turn of the twentieth century has seen as extraordinarily intense period if experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theatre and dance, and new forms od interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of the key practitioners and performances, and anlyses the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this new form of media art. |