Is technology loosening the cultural frames that are the basis for performance?
Performance is part of human relations and creativity in the mixing and
changing of patterns. These patterns are built on our notions of perception
and proprioception, our own person as a body, and correlated geographically,
creating matches and mismatches across the globe, and a shared reality.
Technology offers us our dynamics as bodily persons whether in cybernetics,
or interfaces that engage and play with our perceptions, making us newly
aware of the dynamics of our own existence, our actions and environments
and mixing those of technology with immediacy, transglobally and with facility
to personal needs and less with existent patterns. Dance is a performance
mode that deals with our sense of perception and environment in motion.
This presentation will look at various examples mainly of Canadian digital
dance performance including internet assisted performance. The presentation
will introduce interdisciplinary themes of psychology, physiology, and
communication to examine how patterns and change occur in performance for
the audience and the performer. and the significance of altering these
mechanisms with technology.
05/26: 915