And With Through The Technologies of Performance Dr

And, With & Through: The Technologies of Performance Dr. Gregory Sporton Director, VRU BIAD/UCE

Digital Technology & Performance • • Diversification Impact Categories of Art Taxonomies – Levels – Types – Purpose

Method • Technology foregrounded • Convergence of practice • Practical examples Methodology • Scientific Method • Methodology in the Humanities • The Creative Process

Latency • Practice of creativity • Clarity of enquiry • Taxonomy

And… • Technology as additional • Retains ‘traditional’ practice • Invites conventional interpretation • Form does not throw up significant issues http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ya. PDFKKXX_8

With… • Dependent on technology • Mediates between technology and practice • Relationship between known forms and technology • Uses technology with ‘extended techniques’ http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=KZPn. J 6 --gt. Y

Through… • Sees the shaping of technology as the creative end • Uses features and opportunities of technology • Assimilates the technology into the creative process http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=QKnu. F 0 AXiy. Y

Methodology • Scientific Method – Tests a hypothesis • Humanities – Positions the researcher – Proposes an approach • Creative Practice – Technique? – Emphasis on originality

Final Issues • • • Reflexivity Complexity Practicality Teleology Role of theory – Enquiry – Proposition – Process www. biad. uce. ac. uk/vru