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Performance and Design eBook Series

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  • Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture

    Making Worlds

    by Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen, Joslin McKinney, Professor Scott Palmer, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    What is the impact of virtual models and realms in contemporary theatre, art and architecture?This volume explores the evolution of virtual models, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for world-making using a range of case studies drawn from global contemporary theatre, art and architecture practice.It draws upon a rich array of contemporary examples, including the Japanese ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • The Model as Performance

    Staging Space in Theatre and Architecture

    by Thea Brejzek, Lawrence Wallen, Joslin McKinney, Professor Scott Palmer, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    The Model as Performance investigates the history and development of the scale model from the Renaissance to the present. Employing a scenographic perspective and a performative paradigm, it explores what the model can do and how it is used in theatre and architecture. The volume provides a comprehensive historical context and theoretical framework for theatre scholars, scenographers, artists and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Critical Play

    Radical Game Design

    by Mary Flanagan ...
    An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what if certain games were something more than this, providing not only outlets for entertainment but a means for creative expression, instruments for conceptual thinking, or tools for social change? In Critical ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • EMPTY STAGES, CROWDED FLATS. PERFORMATIVITY AS CURATORIAL STRATEGY.

    Performing Urgencies 4

    by Joanna Warsza, Florian Malzacher, Frédérique Aït-Touati, Knut Ove Arntzen, Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Rui Catalão, Vanessa Desclaux0, Tim Etchells1, Karin Harrasser2, Shannon Jackson3, Ana Janevski4, Lina Majdalanie5, Ewa Majewska6, Maayan Sheleff7, Gerald Siegmund8, Claire Tancons9, Kasia Tórz0, Rachida Triki1, Jelena Vesić2, Catherine Wood3 ...
    Series Book 4 - Performing Urgencies
    During its impressive career over the last decades the term 'performative' has been attributed with many parallel meanings in the humanities, philosophy, arts, or economics. Empty Stages, Crowded Flats additionally applies the notion of the performative to the context of curating with the aim to unfold a potential that so far has been mostly unused. The book is following J. L. Austin, Judith ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Digital Art and Meaning

    Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations

    by Roberto Simanowski ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    In a world increasingly dominated by the digital, the critical response to digital art generally ranges from hype to counterhype. Popular writing about specific artworks seldom goes beyond promoting a given piece and explaining how it operates, while scholars and critics remain unsure about how to interpret and evaluate them. This is where Roberto Simanowski intervenes, demonstrating how such ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Philosophy of Computer Art

    by Dominic Lopes ...
    What is computer art? Do the concepts we usually employ to talk about art, such as ‘meaning’, ‘form’ or ‘expression’ apply to computer art?A Philosophy of Computer Art is the first book to explore these questions. Dominic Lopes argues that computer art challenges some of the basic tenets of traditional ways of thinking about and making art and that to understand computer art we need to place ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Memesthetics

    The Eternal September of Art

    by Valentina Tanni ...
    Art in the twenty-first century has become a strange affair, even stranger than it was in the twentieth. The internet, new technologies, and social media have raided our visual universe with GIFs, photoshopping, and all manner of appropriation. Trolls, YouTubers, and Instagrammers are bequeathing us a set of practices and aesthetics that recall the precepts of the historical avant-gardes, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Relive

    Media Art Histories

    Edited by Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas ...
    Series series Leonardo
    Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Scenography Expanded

    An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design

    by Professor Scott Palmer, Professor Scott Palmer, Joslin McKinney, Joslin McKinney, Stephen A. Di Benedetto ...
    Series series Performance and Design
    Shortlisted for the 2019 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeScenography Expanded is a foundational text offering readers a thorough introduction to contemporary performance design, both in and beyond the theatre. It examines the potential of the visual, spatial, technological, material and environmental aspects of performance to shape performative encounters. It analyses examples of scenography as sites ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Practice

    Architecture, Technique and Representation

    by Stan Allen ...
    Conversant in contemporary theory and architectural history, Stan Allen argues that concepts in architecture are not imported from other disciplines, but emerge through the materials and procedures of architectural practice itself. Drawing on his own experience as a working architect, he examines the ways in which the tools available to the architect affect the design and production of buildings ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Virtuality and the Art of Exhibition

    Curatorial Design for the Multimedial Museum

    by Vince Dziekan ...
    Vince Dziekan is deputy associate dean of research in the Faculty of Art & Design at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia; a FACT associate with the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology in Liverpool; and digital media curator of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Switching Codes

    Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

    Edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover ...
    Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings ... Read more

    $28.79 USD