Hello everyone--
I am interested in questions about how wearable technologies interface with
their cultural contexts. In that regard,
Sarah's questions about performability and spectacle are interesting. Don't
wearables (in the traditional form of performing dress)
always invoke spectacle, to
Hi all,
A brief introduction:
Valerie's comment referenced functional aesthetics which describes the
concept of merging a fashionable technology object deemed to be
aesthetically pleasant with technically enhanced functionalities.
Fashionable technology describes the intersection of design
hi all;
thanks for your response the other day (Danielle)., and I probably concur with
all you say
and had brought up my questions to Valerie, actually, to find out more about
how a conceptual
response (and a conceptual work such as I one I refered to, amongst more
directly staged
performances
Hi All,
I have been very interested to read the discussions so far and am sorry for not
getting involved earlier with the materiality topic. Still, this question of
the performer/audience divide seems to be closely connected with that of
performance and performativity, and of the spectacle and
hi Ashley,
your project sounds like it had some rich outcomes.
three interrelated points arise for me as I read your comments.
I raise them here as open questions for anyone on the list.
You state that the performers physically interact with the audience (...)
yet ultimately the viewer does not p
Thanks to Valerie and Janice for kicking things off with such exciting
questions. I will start with a brief statement about my experimental
choreography and will keep things fairly brief in hopes of encouraging the
large –empyre- readership to chime in and participate in discussion.
This past Octo
