Cybernetic-Existentialism - Freedom, Systems, Being For Others in Contemporary Arts Performance

List of contents

1. Introduction: Cybernetics and Existentialism in Arts and Popular Culture; 2. Visual Art: The Aesthetics of Systems; 3. Interactive Art: Communicating, Controlling and Being-for-Others; 4. Participatory Art: Autopoiesis with Strangers; 5. Theater Art: Staging Cybernetics, Dread, and the Existential Crisis; 6. Performance art: actualizing science fiction and invoking transcendence; 7. Identity Art: The Adaptive System of the Authentic Self; 8. Uncanny Art: Existential Absurdity within Cybernetic Environments; 9. Conclusion: the eternal return and being-in-new-systems

About the author

Steve Dixon is President of LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, one of Asia’s leading arts institutions. He is co-founder and Advisory Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media (Routledge), and author of the award-winning 800-page book Digital Performance: A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art and Installation. He was co-founder and co-Director of the Digital Performance Archive and has published on subjects including theater, film, performance studies, digital art, science fiction, and robotics.

Summary

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Art and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Dixon, Dixon Steve
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367142490
• ISBN: 978-0-367-14249-0
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Internet; COMPUTERS / Internet / General, ART / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, Theatre Studies, Industrial / commercial art & design, Internet: general works, Art forms, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, The Arts: art forms, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation