Virtual Theatres: An Introduction

by Gabriella Giannachi (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $49.08

  The first full-length book of its kind to offer an investigation of the interface between theatre, performance and digital arts, Virtual Theatres presents the theatre of the twenty-first century in which everything - even the viewer - can be simulated.

  In this fascinating volume, Gabriella Giannachi analyzes the aesthetic concerns of current computer-arts practices through discussion of a variety of artists and performers including:

  * blast Theory
  * Merce Cunningham
  * Eduardo Kac
  * forced entertainment
  * Lynn Hershman
  * Jodi Orlan
  * Guillermo Gomez-Pena
  * Marcel-li Antunez Roca
  * Jeffrey Shaw
  * Stelarc.

  Virtual Theatres not only allows for a reinterpretation of what is possible in the world of performance practice, but also demonstrates how 'virtuality' has come to represent a major parameter for our understanding and experience of contemporary art and life.