This ambitious and comprehensive book explores technologys influence on artistic performance practices in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Entangled; Chris Salter shows that technologies; from the mechanical to the computational--from a "ballet of objects and lights" staged by Diaghilevs Ballets Russes in 1917 to contemporary technologically-enabled "responsive environments"--have been entangled with performance across a wide range of disciplines. Salter examines the rich and extensive history of performance experimentation in theater; music; dance; the visual and media arts; architecture; and other fields; explores the political; social; and economic context for the adoption of technological practices in art; and shows that these practices have a set of common histories despite their disciplinary borders. Each chapter in Entangled focuses on a different form: theater scenography; architecture; video and image making; music and sound composition; body-based arts; mechanical and robotic art; and interactive environments constructed for research; festivals; and participatory urban spaces. Salters exhaustive survey and analysis shows that performance traditions have much to teach other emerging practices--in particular in the burgeoning fields of new media. Students of digital art need to master not only electronics and code but also dramaturgy; lighting; sound; and scenography. Entangled will serve as an invaluable reference for students; researchers; and artists as well as a handbook for future praxis.
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