Identity, Performance and Technology

GHISLAINE BODDINGTON Independent scholar, UK ANDREW BUCKSBARG Independent scholar, UK SELENE CARTER Lecturer in Contemporary Dance, Indiana University, USA CHARLIE GERE Head of Department and Reader in New Media Research, Lancaster University, UK LESLIE HILL Associate Professor of Performance Making, Stanford University, USA CARISSA HOPE-LYNCH Literary Officer with Graeae Theatre Company, UK ROBERTA MOCK Professor of Performance Studies and Director of the Arts & Humanities Doctoral Training Centre, Plymouth University, UK HELEN PARIS Professor of Drama, Stanford University, USA SITA POPAT Lecturer of Dance, Theatre and Performance, University of Leeds, UK KELLY PREECE Research Associate in Dance, University of Leeds, UK THECLA SCHIPHORST Associate Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada FRANZISKA SCHROEDER Lecturer/RCUK Fellow, School of Creative Arts, Queen's University Belfast, UK HELLEN SKY Post Graduate Candidate, SIAL RMIT, Australia OLU TAIWO Senior Lecturer, University of Winchester, UK PAUL WOODWARD Independent scholar, UK

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