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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
Method
• Technology foregrounded
• Convergence of practice
• Practical examples
• Scientific Method• Methodology in the
Humanities• The Creative Process
Methodology
Latency
• Practice of creativity• Clarity of enquiry• Taxonomy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPDFKKXX_8
And…
• Technology as additional
• Retains ‘traditional’ practice
• Invites conventional interpretation
• Form does not throw up significant issues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPnJ6--gtY
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=QKnuF0AXiyY
Through…
• Sees the shaping of technology as the creative end
• Uses features and opportunities of technology
• Assimilates the technology into the creative process
Methodology
• Scientific Method– Tests a hypothesis
• Humanities– Positions the
researcher– Proposes an approach
• Creative Practice– Technique?– Emphasis on
originality
www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru
Final Issues
• Reflexivity• Complexity• Practicality• Teleology• Role of theory
– Enquiry– Proposition– Process