How are new digital technologies changing artistic concepts and practices of performance in the 21st century and beyond? To grapple with this question, Christopher Salter will flip back the pages of history to examine how artists/designers/composers/researchers faced similar issues at the dawning of the mechanical age of industrial modernism in the early 20th century and trace this development to the era of the digital. In a lighting fast overview of performance practices in the areas of scenography, sound, theater, dance and interactive environments in which performance practice was already constituted by machinic processes and forms, from a “ballet of objects and lights” staged by Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes in 1917 to the technologically-enabled “responsive environments” started in the 1950s, this talk will provide a cultural and art historical bridge to give an insight into how artists have continually experimented with new technologies in order to produce new hybrid forms and experiences that defy, entangle and overlap disciplinary boundaries.
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