This is great! Fascinating Alan. Gypsy Moth and Chichester were never out of the news I Recall as a child! Amazing find
S Sent from my spyphone > On 2 Dec 2021, at 19:09, Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour > <netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > dear all: > > May I also please invite you to share my joy in the publication of my new > book -- > "Kinetic Atmospheres: Performance and Immersion," it is out now... (Routledge > also makes a discount code available.) > > It was completed just as the pandemic went under way and awareness of the > climate catastrophes became much stronger. I trust the book will be of > interest to anyone who cares about theatre, dance, the performing and media > arts, programming, design etc in contemporary environments of elemental > experience.. > > Here’s a brief résumé: > > This book offers a deeply experiential pragmatic study of performance > environments, here defined at unstable, emerging, and multisensational > atmospheres, open to interactions and travels in augmented virtualities. The > writings challenge common assumptions about embodiment and the digital, > exploring and refining artistic research into physical movement behavior, > gesture, sensing perception, cognition, and trans-sensory hallucination. > If landscapes are autobiographical, and atmospheres prompt us to enter > blurred lines of a "forest knowledge," where light, shade, and darkness > entangle us in foraging mediations of contaminated diversity, then such > sensitization to elemental environments requires a focus on processual > interaction. Provocative chapters probe various types of performance > scenarios and immersive architectures of the real and the virtual. They break > new ground in analyzing an extended choreographic – the building of > hypersensorial scenographies that include a range of materialities as well as > bodily and metabodily presences. Foregrounding his notion of kinetic > atmospheres, the author intimates a technosomatic theory of dance, > performance, and ritual processes, while engaging in a vivid cross-cultural > dialogue with some of the leading digital and theatrical artists worldwide. > > > > For an overview of its contents, please go to www.routledge.com/9780367632618 > > > With regards > > Johannes Birringer > co-director > DAP-Lab > London & Houston > http://people.brunel.ac.uk/dap/ > @DAP_Lab > <Kinetic Atmospheres Facebook image.jpg> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
