Over the past decades, a fundamental epistemological shift has transformed notions of performativity and representation in the arts under the influence of new technologies. Mediation has challenged both spectators’ and performers’ conventions of corporeality, embodiment, cognition and perception. Centring on contemporary synaesthetic and multimodal works, Through the Prism of the Senses examines new theory and practice in body-based arts and contemporary performance. Three main chapters present three distinct strands of methodological enquiry, one from each author, creating a work that resonates with artistic and philosophical enquiry. This book is a vital contribution to discussions surrounding research creation and the body in relation to digital media, highlighting the ways in which new technologies confront the sensate, somatic body.
A French-language version is to be published by Presses de l’Université du Québec (ISBN 978-2-76055-148-0). This includes additional chapters in English by Erin Manning, David Howes, and Luc Vanier and Elizabeth Johnson. A Spanish-language version is to be published by Centro Editoral Universidad de Caldas.
Cuprins
Introduction
Chapter 1: The prism of perception. Corporeality between intermedial stages and environments – Enrico Pitozzi
Chapter 2: Seismographies of mediated bodies. A logic of creation – Isabelle Choinière
Chapter 3: The Mediated/Mediating Body – Andrea Davidson
Conclusion
Postface – Derrick de Kerckhove
Despre autor
Andrea Davidson is an award-winning videographer and new media artist. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Chichester, UK.