Steve Dixon

Cybernetic-Existentialism

Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance

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Produktbeschreibung

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Art and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781032083742
• ISBN-10: 1032083743
• Artikelnr.: 62151823

Autorenporträt

Steve Dixon is President of LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, one of Asia's leading arts institutions. He is co-founder and Advisory Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Routledge), and author of the award-winning 800-page book Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art and Installation. He was co-founder and co-Director of the Digital Performance Archive and has published on subjects including theater, film, performance studies, digital art, science fiction, and robotics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Cybernetics and Existentialism in Arts and Popular Culture
2. Visual Art: The Aesthetics of Systems
3. Interactive Art: Communicating, Controlling and Being-for-Others
4. Participatory Art: Autopoiesis with Strangers
5. Theater Art: Staging Cybernetics, Dread, and the Existential Crisis
6. Performance art: actualizing science fiction and invoking transcendence
7. Identity Art: The Adaptive System of the Authentic Self
8. Uncanny Art: Existential Absurdity within Cybernetic Environments
9. Conclusion: the eternal return and being-in-new-systems