Design And Performance Lab

Publications by members of the DAP-Lab and ADaPT (Association for Dance and Performance Telematics) Johannes Birringer   Performance, Technology, & Science This ground-breaking work of scholarship explores convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive computer-mediated, interactive art. In tracing the evolution of digital performance within a particular history of engineering and theatre that now expands to a wide range of practices in design, dance, architecture, fashion, games, music, robotics, telematic performance, and Òpost-productionÓ theatre, the author focuses on interactive performance, installation and Internet art. Internationally known practitioners and their works are introduced to formulate provocative ideas on computation, complexity, emergence and self-organizing systems in contemporary peformance which are inspired by biology and biotechnology. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and networked environments. The work of key artists, theatre and dance companies, and laboratories demonstrate how scientific concepts have influenced digital performance, including those inspired by biology and the life sciences. Challenging common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, this study addresses how artists use artificial intelligence, machine learning, and sensing technologies not only to enhance the range of expression and visualization, but to bridge the gap between the work and its user.     Table of Contents   Acknowledgments Introduction I. MOVING THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES 1. Trackback 1: Performance and Moving Images 2. Machines and Bodies 3. Trackback 2: Algorithms, Dance, and Technology 4. Performance and Engineering 5.. Deafman Glance and Molecular Gaze II. THE INTERACTIVE PARADIGM 6. River Beds and Gardens: The Tactile Interface Environment 7. Interactive Systems 8. Between Mapping and Artificial Intelligence III. DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS, WEARABLE SPACES 9. Architecture and the Digital 10. Installations and the Participant-User 11. Design Futures: Wearables 12. Level Up: Games and Telepresence IV. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 13. Thinking Images: A Conversation with Paul Kaiser and Marc Downie V. BIOTECHNOLOGIES 14. Performance and Science 15. Conclusion: Bio-Art and Interactors Index