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Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities / edited by Liam Jarvis and Karen Savage.

Contributor(s): Jarvis, Liam [editor.] | Savage, Karen (Karen Ann) [editor.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Methuen Drama, 2021Description: 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image ISBN: 9781350159327 (ePub ebook) :Subject(s): Identity (Philosophical concept) in art | Technology and the arts | Performing arts -- Technological innovations | Art and Design | The arts: general issues | Theatre studiesDDC classification: 700.453 Online access: Open e-book
Contents:
List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Postdigitality: "Isn't it all 'Intermedial'?" Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK, and Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UKChapter 1: Avatars, Apes, and the 'Test' of Performance Capture, Ralf Remshardt , University of Florida, USAChapter 2: Performativity 3.0: Hacking Postdigital Subjectivities, William W. Lewis, Purdue University, USA Chapter 3: Randy Rainbow's Musical and Social Media Activism: (Digital) Bodyguards and Politicising/Weaponising Audiences, Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UKChapter 4: Deepfake-ification: A Postdigital Aesthetics of Wrongness in Deepfakes and Theatrical Shallowfakes Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UKChapter 5: The Glitch, The Diva, and Coming Back Out: Aging and Postdigital Identity, Asher Warren, University of Tasmania, AustraliaChapter 6: Voicing Identity: Theatre Sound and Precarious Subjectivities, Lynne Kendrick, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK and Yaron Shylydkrot, University of Sheffield, UKChapter 7: Postdigital Place-Mixing in the Wild City Jo Scott, University of Salford, UKIndex
Summary: In the context of the postdigital age, where technology is increasingly part of our social and political world, Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance traces how identity can be created, developed, hijacked, manipulated, sabotaged and explored through performance in postdigital cultures. Considering how technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals how we engage in performance practices through expanded notions of intermediality, knotted networks and layering.This book examines the artist as activist and producer of avatars, and how digital doubles, artificial intelligence and semi-automated politics are problematizing and expanding our discussions of identity. Using a range of examples in theatre, film and internet-based performance practices, chapters examine the uncertain boundaries of networked 'informational selves' in mediatized cultures, the impacts of machine algorithms, apps and the consequences of digital legacies. Case studies include James Cameron's Avatar, Blast Theory's Karen, Ontroerend Goed's A Game of You, Randy Rainbow's online videos, Sisters Grimm's Calpurnia Descending, Dead Centre's Lippy and Chekhov's First Play and Jo Scott's practice-as-research in 'place-mixing'.This is an incisive study for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the wider conversations around identity-formation in postdigital cultures.
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List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Postdigitality: "Isn't it all 'Intermedial'?" Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK, and Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UKChapter 1: Avatars, Apes, and the 'Test' of Performance Capture, Ralf Remshardt , University of Florida, USAChapter 2: Performativity 3.0: Hacking Postdigital Subjectivities, William W. Lewis, Purdue University, USA Chapter 3: Randy Rainbow's Musical and Social Media Activism: (Digital) Bodyguards and Politicising/Weaponising Audiences, Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UKChapter 4: Deepfake-ification: A Postdigital Aesthetics of Wrongness in Deepfakes and Theatrical Shallowfakes Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UKChapter 5: The Glitch, The Diva, and Coming Back Out: Aging and Postdigital Identity, Asher Warren, University of Tasmania, AustraliaChapter 6: Voicing Identity: Theatre Sound and Precarious Subjectivities, Lynne Kendrick, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK and Yaron Shylydkrot, University of Sheffield, UKChapter 7: Postdigital Place-Mixing in the Wild City Jo Scott, University of Salford, UKIndex

In the context of the postdigital age, where technology is increasingly part of our social and political world, Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance traces how identity can be created, developed, hijacked, manipulated, sabotaged and explored through performance in postdigital cultures. Considering how technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals how we engage in performance practices through expanded notions of intermediality, knotted networks and layering.This book examines the artist as activist and producer of avatars, and how digital doubles, artificial intelligence and semi-automated politics are problematizing and expanding our discussions of identity. Using a range of examples in theatre, film and internet-based performance practices, chapters examine the uncertain boundaries of networked 'informational selves' in mediatized cultures, the impacts of machine algorithms, apps and the consequences of digital legacies. Case studies include James Cameron's Avatar, Blast Theory's Karen, Ontroerend Goed's A Game of You, Randy Rainbow's online videos, Sisters Grimm's Calpurnia Descending, Dead Centre's Lippy and Chekhov's First Play and Jo Scott's practice-as-research in 'place-mixing'.This is an incisive study for scholars, students and practitioners interested in the wider conversations around identity-formation in postdigital cultures.

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