Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Leonardo)

Digital Performance is a comprehensive guide to the incorporation of new media into the performing arts, tracing the evolution of digital practices from past forms of theatrical technology to contemporary work in interactive installations, CD-ROMs, and web-based performances.

This book provides detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, analyzing theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts.

It draws on the work of Philip Auslander, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, and others to offer a theoretical perspective on digital performance, while documenting changes in the representation of the body, space, and time.

With its focus on virtual bodies, avatars, and digital doubles, as well as performances by artists such as Stelarc, Robert Lepage, Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, Blast Theory, and Eduardo Kac, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and performance.