Douglas Eacho
Biographic Data
| ID | 1091669 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas Eacho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Eacho |
| SIGNATURE | EACHO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8830-7204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Still Exhausted: Introduction
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On Chance Performance and Indeterminate Value
Performativity without theatricality: Experiments at the limit of staging AI
Referencing participant observation in a research-creation lab devoted to performance and artificial intelligence (AI), this article summarizes and intervenes within two discourses surrounding the performativity of computation. I first summarize the media-theoretical debate over whether or not electronic computation counts as what J. L. Austin and Jacques Derrida defined as ‘performative’. This turns out to be a divide over the politics of theore…
Scripting Control: Computer Choreography and Neoliberal Performance
From 1964 to 1978, three artists—Jeanne Beaman, John Lansdown, and Analívia Cordeiro—gave their choreographic practices over to computer software. Their dances were the first theatrical performances scored by digital computers. This essay outlines these figures' forgotten histories and argues that they developed a neoliberal performance aesthetic. Computer choreography was a metaphor for governance by aleatory management. The conjunction of an al…
Web-Dance’s Era of Ecstasy
The Web, writes Harmony Bench in the timely Perpetual Motion: Dance, digital cultures, and the common, is now ‘arguably the single most important means of accessing dance’ (72). Yet as the pandemic
Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age by Miriam Felton-Dansky
Reviewed by: Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age by Miriam Felton-Dansky Douglas Eacho VIRAL PERFORMANCE: CONTAGIOUS THEATERS FROM MODERNISM TO THE DIGITAL AGE. By Miriam Felton-Dansky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018; pp. 256. The theatre, as they would say in Silicon Valley, does not scale well. Although its audiences can be large, a performance is ultimately a quite local phenomenon. Yet f…
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Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age by Miriam Felton-Dansky
Reviewed by: Viral Performance: Contagious Theaters from Modernism to the Digital Age by Miriam Felton-Dansky Douglas Eacho VIRAL PERFORMANCE: CONTAGIOUS THEATERS FROM MODERNISM TO THE DIGITAL AGE. By Miriam Felton-Dansky. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2018; pp. 256. The theatre, as they would say in Silicon Valley, does not scale well. Although its audiences can be large, a performance is ultimately a quite local phenomenon. Yet f…
Web-Dance’s Era of Ecstasy
The Web, writes Harmony Bench in the timely Perpetual Motion: Dance, digital cultures, and the common, is now ‘arguably the single most important means of accessing dance’ (72). Yet as the pandemic
Scripting Control: Computer Choreography and Neoliberal Performance
From 1964 to 1978, three artists—Jeanne Beaman, John Lansdown, and Analívia Cordeiro—gave their choreographic practices over to computer software. Their dances were the first theatrical performances scored by digital computers. This essay outlines these figures' forgotten histories and argues that they developed a neoliberal performance aesthetic. Computer choreography was a metaphor for governance by aleatory management. The conjunction of an al…
Performativity without theatricality: Experiments at the limit of staging AI
Referencing participant observation in a research-creation lab devoted to performance and artificial intelligence (AI), this article summarizes and intervenes within two discourses surrounding the performativity of computation. I first summarize the media-theoretical debate over whether or not electronic computation counts as what J. L. Austin and Jacques Derrida defined as ‘performative’. This turns out to be a divide over the politics of theore…
Still Exhausted: Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
On Chance Performance and Indeterminate Value
Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dance (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)