Abstract
After two evenings of performance at the Digital Cultures Lab (2005) in Nottingham, England, several colleagues gathered at the local pub to discuss what we had seen. An interesting thread emerged as we debated the various works, which included a work-in-progress version of Troika Ranch’s 16 [Revolutions (2005): must media-intensive dance performances focus, throughout a work’s duration, on fully exploring and/or revealing a single interactive system and its visual or aural result? Or, is it feasible to have highly varied visual/aural results as long as they rigorously support the aesthetic intent of the piece? And, what does the difference in these two modes of exploration tell us about mediated performance work in general?
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Coniglio, M. (2006). Materials vs Content in Digitally Mediated Performance. In: Broadhurst, S., Machon, J. (eds) Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230288157_6
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