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And, With & Through: The Technologies of Performance. Dr. Gregory Sporton Director, VRU BIAD/UCE. Digital Technology & Performance. Diversification Impact Categories of Art Taxonomies Levels Types Purpose. Technology foregrounded Convergence of practice Practical examples.
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And, With & Through: The Technologies of Performance Dr. Gregory Sporton Director, VRU BIAD/UCE
Digital Technology & Performance • Diversification • Impact • Categories of Art • Taxonomies • Levels • Types • Purpose
Technology foregrounded Convergence of practice Practical examples Scientific Method Methodology in the Humanities The Creative Process Method Methodology
Latency • Practice of creativity • Clarity of enquiry • Taxonomy
And… • Technology as additional • Retains ‘traditional’ practice • Invites conventional interpretation • Form does not throw up significant issues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPDFKKXX_8
With… • Dependent on technology • Mediates between technology and practice • Relationship between known forms and technology • Uses technology with ‘extended techniques’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPnJ6--gtY
Through… • Sees the shaping of technology as the creative end • Uses features and opportunities of technology • Assimilates the technology into the creative process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKnuF0AXiyY
Methodology • Scientific Method • Tests a hypothesis • Humanities • Positions the researcher • Proposes an approach • Creative Practice • Technique? • Emphasis on originality
Final Issues • Reflexivity • Complexity • Practicality • Teleology • Role of theory • Enquiry • Proposition • Process www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru