Research Catalog

Title

Performing presence : between the live and the simulated / Gabriella Giannachi and Nick Kaye.

Author

Giannachi, Gabriella

Publication

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Kaye, Nick

Description

xix, 260 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Addressing new media art and performance, multi-media theatre, video installation, mixed reality performance and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary Hill, Tony Oursler, The Builders Association and Blast Theory, as well as analyses of a series of related experiments created for CAVE, an immersive virtual reality environment. Performing Presence combines extensive analysis, and extracts from interviews with the artists, as well as the documentation of elements of work and working processes, in order to provide specific insight into these engagements with contemporary practices and concepts presence.

Subject

• Theater > Psychological aspects
• Performance > Psychological aspects
• Performance art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Performing presence -- Tracing : Lynn Hershman Leeson -- Emergence : Gary Hill -- Distance : Paul Sermon -- Simulation : CAVE -- Ghosting : Tony Oursler -- Disjunction : The Builders Association -- Pervasiveness : blast theory and mixed reality laboratory -- Conclusion : Presence and recovery.

ISBN

• 9780719080043
• 0719080045

OCLC

• 687699251
• SCSB-10775703

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library