Preece, K. L. (2014) Hammers and blind man’s sticks: re-examining the digital double. Seminar Presentation presented to: Dance Research Symposium, Isham Studios, The University of Northampton, 15 October 2014. (Unpublished)
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| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Seminar Presentation) |
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| Abstract: | This presentation draws on my research in to technological embodiment as part of my PhD studies, which explores a phenomenon called the ‘digital double’ – a manipulable representation of the human body in a variety of performance and new media contexts. My research uses lived experience and autoethnographic writing as a methodology to document and reveal embodied knowledge of the interfaces of body, technology and self when technologically embodied through the digital double. This presentation gives an overview of my research alongside discussion of Me and My Shadow (2012), an interactive telematic and live motion-capture performance installation by sound and media artist Joseph Hyde. Using extracts from autoethnographic writing about my embodied experience of the installation as an audience member, I illustrate the theoretical and embodied bases of my research. My intention is to highlight flaws in current theorisations of the digital double and technological embodiment in this context, which stem from reliance on Merleau-Pontian philosophy of the body as the basis for the research area, and its inherent ‘somatophobia’ (Barbour, 2005). I argue that, through an embodied research methodology and consideration of somatic philosophy and dance scholarship, a more holistic understanding of technological embodiment can be reached. |
| Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater > PN2041 Performance studies G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation. Leisure > GV1787 Ballet. Modern dance N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) > N7433.8 Digital art N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) > N61 Theory. Philosophy. Aesthetics of the visual arts |
| Creators: | Preece, Kelly Louise |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: | University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology |
| Date: | 15 October 2014 |
| Date Type: | Presentation |
| Event Title: | Dance Research Symposium |
| Event Dates: | 15 October 2014 |
| Event Location: | Isham Studios, The University of Northampton |
| Event Type: | Other |
| Language: | English |
| Status: | Unpublished |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7335 |
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