This project investigates the implications of technology on identity in embodied performance, opening up a forum of debate exploring the interrelationship of and between identities in performance practices and considering how identity is formed, de-formed, blurred and celebrated within diverse approaches to technological performance practice.
List of Illustrations Foreword; T.Schiphorst Notes on Contributors Introduction; S.Broadhurst & J.Machon PART I: IDENTITIES - NEW EPISTEMOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGIES Improvising Artists, Embodied Technology and Emergent Techniques; A.Bucksbarg & S.Carter Shifting Listening Identities - Towards a Fluidity of Form in Digital Music; F.Schroeder Art as Eudaimonia: Embodied Identities and the Return Beat; O.Taiwo Graeae: An Aesthetic of Access - (De)cluttering the Clutter; J.Sealey & C.Hope Lynch PART II: (EX)POSING IDENTITY - EMBODIED ART PRACTICES Woven Bodies, Woven Cultures; G.Boddington Pina; S.Broadhurst Experiential Identities in the Work of Marisa Carnesky; J.Machon Lynn Hershman and the Creation of Multiple Robertas; R.Mock PART III: EMPOWERMENT/DISEMPOWERMENT IN DIGITAL PERFORMANCE (be)longing: A Case Study of Recording and Representation; L.Hill Pluralistic Presence: Practising Embodiment with My Avatar; S.Popat & K.Preece The Silent Screen/Scream: A Sensual Exploration of the Interior/Exterior Screens of the (Dis)closing Subject; P.Woodward PART IV: BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES: THE DELIMITED SELF Below the Surface; H.Paris 'Stelarc's Mystical Body'; C.Gere Borderless Bodies - The Cellulardata Body; H.Sky Index
