Digital Theatre - an experimentarium

[some of the comments below pertain to readers who are participating in the project]

Suggested Bibliography/ Source Materials:

Bruderlin, Armin. ‘How to Produce Movement with a Computer’. In: Dance and Technology I: Moving Toward the Future. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference (A. William Smith, ed.). University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 28-1 March 1992. pp. 10-17

Birringer, Johannes. ‘Machines and Migratory Bodies: a digital laboratory’. Unpublished report on June 1998 workshop.

deLahunta, Scott. ‘Dancing in Virtual Spaces’ (draft paper). Presented at Wiretap 4.09, V2 Organisation, Rotterdam, Sept. 1998.

deLahunta, Scott. ‘Speculative Paper: Theater/ Dance and New Media and Information Technologies’, paper presented to the Working Groups on Dance and Drama, Research Group on Reorganisation of Professional Arts Education in the Netherlands, April 1998.

DeLeuze, Gilles & Claire Parnet. ‘The Actual and the Virtual’ (translation by Susan Kozel). Dialogues (annex: chapter V). Paris: Flammarion. 1996.

Hayles, N. Katherine. ‘Embodied Virtuality: or how to put bodies back into the picture’. Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments (Mary Anne Moser, ed.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1996. pp.1-28.

Kozel, Susan. ‘The Carbon Unit in the Silicon Domain: more thoughts on dance and digital technologies’. Writings on Dance 17, 1997.

Kozel, Susan. ‘Exiles, Ghosts and Astronauts: physical interventions in the critique of virtual culture’. Aura, filmvetenskaplig tidskrift (Swedish Journal of Film Studies). April 1998.

Kozel, Susan. ‘Ghostcatching: more perspectives on captured motion’. Review written for Archis (upcoming issue). January 1999.

Kozel, Susan. ‘Motion Capture: the voice from inside’ (draft paper). Presented at Seminar One, Digital Theatre Experimentarium, Seminar I, University of Århus, Denmark. February 1999.

Kozel, Susan. ‘Spacemaking: experiences of a virtual body’. Online version of article which appeared in Dance Theatre Journal, vol 11 no 3, autumn 1994.

Manovich, Lev. ‘The Language of New Media’. Nettime Discussion List posting (http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/). 25 October 1998.

McGregor, Wayne in conversation with Jo Butterworth. In: Dance Makers Portolio: conversations with choreographers (Jo Butterworth and Gill Clarke, eds.). 1998. pp. 105-113.

Rethorst, Susan. ‘Approach to Teaching Choreography and Movement’. Short unpublished essay. January 1999.

Rubidge, Sarah. ‘Defining Digital Dance’. Dance Theatre Journal. February 1999.

Siegel, Wayne and Jens Jacobsen. 'The Challenges of Interactive Dance: An Overview and Case Study.' Computer Music Journal 22:4, Winter 1998, pp. 29-43.

Stewart, Nigel. ‘Re-Languaging the Body: phenomenological description and the dance image’. Performance Research 3(2), pp. 42-53.

Theodores, Diana. 'Connecting Bodies Symposium: comments before final panel discussion'. Connecting Bodies Symposium, Amsterdam, June 1996.

Books/ Journals – those with a * are available in Scott’s office (rm. 146):

*Allsopp, Ric & Scott deLahunta, eds.The Connected Body: an interdisciplinary approach to the body and performance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam School for the Arts. 1996

Bender, Gretchen & Timothy Druckrey, eds.Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology. Seattle: Bay Press. 1994.

*Birringer, Johannes. Media & Performance: along the border. London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

*Bosma, Josephine, et al. Readme! Filtered by Nettime: ascii culture and the revenge of knowledge. Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 1999.

*Butler, Chris. Split Screen Papers: proceedings from firstr Split Screen Conference July 1996. University of Chichester, 1997.

Crary, Jonathan and Sanford Kwinter, eds. Zone 6: Incorporations. New York: Zone, 1992.

*Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: on vision and modernity in the 19th century. Cambridge, London: MIT Press. 1990

*Hale, Constance, ed. Wired Style: principles of english usage in the digital age. San Francisco: HardWired, 1996.

Haraway, Donna J. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the reinvention of nature. London: Free Association Books. 1991.

*Hofstadter, Douglas R. Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid. London: Penguin Books, 1979.

Leeson, Lynn Hershman, ed. Clicking In: Hot Links to a Digital Culture. Seattle: Bay Press. 1996.

*Levinson, Paul. The Soft Edge: a natural history and future of the information revolution. London: Routledge, 1997.

*Kostelanetz, Richard. The Theatre of Mixed Means: an introduction to happenings, kinetic environments and other mixed-means presentations. New York: RK Editions, 1980.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (new edition with Introduction by Lewis Lapham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1994.

Mitchell, William J. City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1995. (also available online)

*Moser, Mary Anne, ed. Immersed in Technology: Art and Virtual Environments. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1996.

Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1995.

*Popper, Frank. Art of the electronic age. New York: Abrams. 1993.

Rowe, Robert. Interactive Computer Music: Machine Listening and Composing. Cambridge, Massachusettes: The MIT Press. 1993.

*Smith, A. William, ed. Dance and Technology I: Moving Toward the Future. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. 28-1 March 1992. (available through the National Resource Centre for Dance)

Smith, A. William, ed. Dance and Technology III: Transcending Boundaries. Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference. York University, Toronto, CA. 18-25 May 1995. (available through the National Resource Centre for Dance)

Smith, Hazel and Roger Dean. Improvisation, Hypermedia and the Arts since 1945. Amsterdam, NL: Harwood Academic Publishers. 1997.

Stone, Allucquére Rosanne. The War of Desire & Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1996.

Winkler, Todd. Composing Interactive Music: Techniques and Ideas Using Max. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1998.

*Virilio, Paul. Open Sky (translated by Julie Rose). London: Verso, 1997.

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Other writings by Susan Kozel:

Marionettes and Dancers: dance and digital technologies. Archis: Architecture - City - Visual Culture. 1998/10, No 61. (Rotterdam).

Refiguring Linearity: politics and post-linear performance. The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance, ed. Lizbeth Goodman. London and New York: Routledge. (forthcoming in 1999)

Multi-Medea: feminist performance using multimedia technologies. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance, ed. L. Goodman & J. de Gay. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.

Material Mapping. Archis: Architecture - City - Visual Culture. 1998/4 (Rotterdam).

Multi-Medea:shrinkspace. Archis: Architecture - City - Visual Culture. Vol 7, 1997 (Rotterdam).

The Story is told as a History of the Body: Strategies of Mimesis in the work of Irigaray and Bausch. Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies in Dance, ed. Jane C. Desmond. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

Electromythologies: the process of mythmaking in dance and digital technologies. Society for Dance History Scholars conference proceedings. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

The Diabolical Strategy of Mimesis: Luce Irigaray's Reading of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Hypatia vol 11, no 3 (Summer 1996).

Moving Beyond the Double Syntax: Considering Butoh. Dance Theatre Journal, vol 13, no 1, Summer 1996.

"Athikte's Voice: Listening to the Voice of the Dancer in Paul Valéry's 'L'âme et la danse'" Dance Research Journal 27/1: Spring 1995.

Reshaping Space: Focusing Time. Dance Theatre Journal vol 12, no 2, Autumn 1995.

Virtual Trajectories: Technology in Performance. Total Theatre vol 7, no 1, March 1995.

The Virtual World: New Frontiers for Dance and Philosophy. Border Tensions: Dance and Discourse Conference Proceedings (Guildford: Department of Dance Studies, University of Surrey, 1995).

Choreographing Cyberspace: An assessment of the possibility for dance in Virtual Reality. Dance Theatre Journal vol 11, no 2, Spring/Summer 1994.

• Bodybuilding -- a 3-D poem in two parts
  
• MediaSpace [look in on a rehearsal]
• Analytical Seminar