By Stamatia Portanova
Digital applied sciences provide the potential for shooting, storing, and manipulating move, abstracting it from the physique and remodeling it into numerical details. In Moving and not using a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what particularly occurs while the physicality of circulation is translated right into a numerical code by way of a technological process. Drawing at the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this doesn't volume to a technical evaluate of software's potential to checklist movement yet calls for a philosophical rethinking of what stream itself is, or can turn into. Discussing the improvement of alternative audiovisual instruments and the shift from analog to electronic, she specializes in a few choreographic realizations of this evolution, together with works by means of Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. all through, Portanova considers those applied sciences and dances as how you can imagine -- instead of simply practice or understand -- stream. She distinguishes the choreographic suggestion from the functionality: a physique plays a move, and a brain thinks or choreographs a dance. equally, she sees the flow from analog to electronic as a shift in perception instead of easily in technical attention. reading choreographic applied sciences for his or her potential to revamp the way in which move is believed, Moving with out a Body bargains an ambitiously conceived mirrored image at the ontological implications of the come upon among stream and technological systems.
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