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

• Scientific Method• Methodology in the

Humanities• The Creative Process

Methodology

Latency

• Practice of creativity• Clarity of enquiry• Taxonomy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPDFKKXX_8

And…

• Technology as additional

• Retains ‘traditional’ practice

• Invites conventional interpretation

• Form does not throw up significant issues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPnJ6--gtY

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=QKnuF0AXiyY

Through…

• Sees the shaping of technology as the creative end

• Uses features and opportunities of technology

• Assimilates the technology into the creative process

Methodology

• Scientific Method– Tests a hypothesis

• Humanities– Positions the

researcher– Proposes an approach

• Creative Practice– Technique?– Emphasis on

originality

www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru

Final Issues

• Reflexivity• Complexity• Practicality• Teleology• Role of theory

– Enquiry– Proposition– Process