The Performing Subject in the Space of Technology

This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.

This book reflects on the aftermath of shifts encountered in the maturing of digital culture in areas of critical theory and artistic practices, focusing on the awareness that contemporary subjectivity is one that dwells within both the virtual and the real.

Introduction: 'In the after-event of the virtual'; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan, Néill O'Dwyer PART I: PROVOCATIONS: SUBJECTIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY Introduction to Part I; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan and Néill O'Dwyer 1. 'Into the body of another: strange couplings and unnatural alliances of Harlequin Coat'; Burcu Baykan 2. 'The Cultural Critique of Bernard Stiegler: Reflecting on the Computational Performances of Klaus Obermaier; Neill O'Dwyer 3. 'The Flicker at the threshold of societies of control'; Sharon Phelan 4. 'The Right to Be Forgotten and The Image-Crimes of Digital Culture'; Matthew Causey 5. 'Materiality, immateriality and the dancing body; the challenge of the inter in the preservation of intangible cultural heritage'; Sarah Whatley 6. 'Performing (the Subject of) Exteriority: Virtuality, M?m?sis, and the Gratuitous 'One Must''; Riku Roihankorpi PART II: PRACTICES: EMBODIED NOTIONS OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY 7. Introduction to Part II ; Matthew Causey, Emma Meehan & Néill O'Dwyer8. 'Not Waving But Drowning: The Affect Of Random Programming On The Creation Of A Digital Performance Work'; Mary Oliver 9. 'BrainExplode! Audiences and agency through the appropriation of Videogame structures'; Dan Bergin 10. 'Relational Works-In-Movement Using The Body Response System'; Maria Coleman 11. 'Dancing With Dirt And Wires; Reconciling The Embodied And The Digital In Site Responsive Collaborative Practice'; Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp And Amy Voris 12. 'Jeanette Doyle: Fifteen Days And Factory Direct At The Andy Warhol Museum: The Relationship Between The 'Immaterial', 'Dematerial' And 'Material' In Contemporary Art Practice'; Jeanette Doyle 13. 'Inscribing Work And Process: The Ontological Implications Of Virtual Scoring Practices For Dance'; Hetty Blades 14. 'Traces And Artifacts Of Physical Intelligence'; Scott Delahunta Index