Steve Dixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3848658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve Dixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve |
| FAMILY NAME | Dixon |
| SIGNATURE | DIXON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | LASALLE College of the Arts |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0723-3379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Collaboration and Co-finitude
A Telepresence Stage
This report describes the authors’ research project ‘Telepresence Stage’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘COVID-19 Rapid Response’ scheme. The project aims to develop effective and affordable new approaches to connect performers from their separate homes and place them within virtual sets online where they can rehearse and perform together. The report discusses the history of telematic performance and explains how thi…
Cybernetic-Existentialism in Performance Art
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed to offer a new critical perspective on technological performance art. Case studies of Wafaa Bilal, Stelarc and Steve Mann are used to demonstrate how core ideas and themes from both cybernetics and existentialism are increasingly converging in contemporary arts
Cybernetic-existentialism in interactive performance
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed and developed in relation to interactive performances that draw upon or encapsulate primary themes from the distinct but interrelated disciplines of cybernetics and Existentialist philosophy. Ideas from both fields are identified as converging in classic works across the history of interactive performance including by Kaprow, Beuys, Klüver, Abramović, and Galloway and Rabinowitz. Performance colle…
Cybernetic-Existentialism and Being-towards-death in Contemporary Art and Performance
Ideas and themes central to both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy converge in the work of some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Utilizing little or no technology, these artists nonetheless employ “systems” approaches and protocybernetic models, while simultaneously exploring themes directly related to existentialism
Cybernetic-Existentialism
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed in the light of emerging themes within contemporary arts and performance that appear to relate simultaneously to both fields and to fuse them. Cybernetic-Existentialist ideas are also increasingly prevalent within everyday life and popular culture, and the Disney film Frozen (2013) is examined as an illustration. Case studies are presented of performances by The Wooster Group, Societas Raffaello S…
Critical Digital Studies
Berryman, Jerome W. Children and the Theologians
(2010). Berryman, Jerome W. Children and the Theologians: Clearing the Way for Grace. Practical Theology: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 381-383
The philosophy and psychology of the scenographic house in multimedia theatre
The full-scale house has a long history in theatrical set design, and the addition of video projections and digital effects in recent multimedia theatre has resulted in some extraordinary productions that compress or reconfigure ideas of time, space and place, and interrogate the close interrelationships between the macro and micro, and the real and the unreal. Digitally enhanced house sets and facades in works by Heiner Goebbels, Keith Armstrong…
Estimating attendance for breast cancer screening in ethnic groups in London
Overall breast screening attendance is low in communities with large Black populations, suggesting the need to improve participation of Black women. Variations in attendance for the Asian population require further investigation at an individual screening service level
Digital Performance
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on…
A history of virtual reality in performance
Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer theatre and performance unique and compelling possibilities, but surprisingly few, though notable experiments have so far materialized. The essay synthesises some of its early history, surveying how it has been used in theatrical and performance contexts, where somewhat paradoxically, its high-tech and ‘futuristic’ features have most commonly been utilized to conjure ancient, classical or primeval worlds an…
Theatre, technology, and time
Time has been an emergent artistic and philosophical theme in digital theatre practice, and the conjunction of live performance and recorded/computer-rendered imagery has been used in innovative ways to elicit particular temporal distortions and effects. In theatre works by The Builders Association, Robert Lepage, Dumb Type and Uninvited Guests these effects can be seen not only to disorient an audience's understanding and experience of theatrica…
Metal Performance Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
Robots and cyborgs perform the humanization of machines and the dehumanization of humans. Paradoxically, these “metal performances” also dramatize a return to nature and the animal
Futurism e-visited
The paper argues the centrality of Futurist aesthetics and philosophies to current performance work utilising computer technologies, and suggests that Futurism’s legacy to ‘digital performance’ has been greatly underestimated. A close analysis of Futurist theatre manifestos reveals clear relationships between theatrical plans and practices separated by almost a century. These include fundamental principles of Futurist performance art such as alog…
The Discourse of Assessment
Utilizing approaches influenced by Foucault’s thoeries of discourse, this article identifies instances of ‘discourse-conflict’ present within the assessment of collaborative group practice in the performing arts at higher education level. It analyses the connotations of the word ‘assessment’ itself in terms of its relation to concepts of valuation and worth. It then relates this analysis to three discourses, identified as those of ‘The Academy’,‘…
Digits, Discourse, and Documentation
Is digital multimedia the new interface between performance theory and practice? An exploration of hypermedia discourse and documentation supported by the interactive CD-ROM Chameleons 2: Theatre in a Movie Screen
Metal Performance Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
Robots and cyborgs perform the humanization of machines and the dehumanization of humans. Paradoxically, these “metal performances” also dramatize a return to nature and the animal
The Discourse of Assessment
Utilizing approaches influenced by Foucault’s thoeries of discourse, this article identifies instances of ‘discourse-conflict’ present within the assessment of collaborative group practice in the performing arts at higher education level. It analyses the connotations of the word ‘assessment’ itself in terms of its relation to concepts of valuation and worth. It then relates this analysis to three discourses, identified as those of ‘The Academy’,‘…
Digits, Discourse, and Documentation
Is digital multimedia the new interface between performance theory and practice? An exploration of hypermedia discourse and documentation supported by the interactive CD-ROM Chameleons 2: Theatre in a Movie Screen
The Discourse of Assessment
Utilizing approaches influenced by Foucault’s thoeries of discourse, this article identifies instances of ‘discourse-conflict’ present within the assessment of collaborative group practice in the performing arts at higher education level. It analyses the connotations of the word ‘assessment’ itself in terms of its relation to concepts of valuation and worth. It then relates this analysis to three discourses, identified as those of ‘The Academy’,‘…
Futurism e-visited
The paper argues the centrality of Futurist aesthetics and philosophies to current performance work utilising computer technologies, and suggests that Futurism’s legacy to ‘digital performance’ has been greatly underestimated. A close analysis of Futurist theatre manifestos reveals clear relationships between theatrical plans and practices separated by almost a century. These include fundamental principles of Futurist performance art such as alog…
Metal Performance Humanizing Robots, Returning to Nature, and Camping About
Robots and cyborgs perform the humanization of machines and the dehumanization of humans. Paradoxically, these “metal performances” also dramatize a return to nature and the animal
Theatre, technology, and time
Time has been an emergent artistic and philosophical theme in digital theatre practice, and the conjunction of live performance and recorded/computer-rendered imagery has been used in innovative ways to elicit particular temporal distortions and effects. In theatre works by The Builders Association, Robert Lepage, Dumb Type and Uninvited Guests these effects can be seen not only to disorient an audience's understanding and experience of theatrica…
A history of virtual reality in performance
Virtual reality (VR) technologies offer theatre and performance unique and compelling possibilities, but surprisingly few, though notable experiments have so far materialized. The essay synthesises some of its early history, surveying how it has been used in theatrical and performance contexts, where somewhat paradoxically, its high-tech and ‘futuristic’ features have most commonly been utilized to conjure ancient, classical or primeval worlds an…
Digital Performance
The historical roots, key practitioners, and artistic, theoretical, and technological trends in the incorporation of new media into the performing arts. The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on…
Berryman, Jerome W. Children and the Theologians
(2010). Berryman, Jerome W. Children and the Theologians: Clearing the Way for Grace. Practical Theology: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 381-383
The philosophy and psychology of the scenographic house in multimedia theatre
The full-scale house has a long history in theatrical set design, and the addition of video projections and digital effects in recent multimedia theatre has resulted in some extraordinary productions that compress or reconfigure ideas of time, space and place, and interrogate the close interrelationships between the macro and micro, and the real and the unreal. Digitally enhanced house sets and facades in works by Heiner Goebbels, Keith Armstrong…
Estimating attendance for breast cancer screening in ethnic groups in London
Overall breast screening attendance is low in communities with large Black populations, suggesting the need to improve participation of Black women. Variations in attendance for the Asian population require further investigation at an individual screening service level
Critical Digital Studies
Cybernetic-Existentialism
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed in the light of emerging themes within contemporary arts and performance that appear to relate simultaneously to both fields and to fuse them. Cybernetic-Existentialist ideas are also increasingly prevalent within everyday life and popular culture, and the Disney film Frozen (2013) is examined as an illustration. Case studies are presented of performances by The Wooster Group, Societas Raffaello S…
Cybernetic-existentialism in interactive performance
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed and developed in relation to interactive performances that draw upon or encapsulate primary themes from the distinct but interrelated disciplines of cybernetics and Existentialist philosophy. Ideas from both fields are identified as converging in classic works across the history of interactive performance including by Kaprow, Beuys, Klüver, Abramović, and Galloway and Rabinowitz. Performance colle…
Cybernetic-Existentialism and Being-towards-death in Contemporary Art and Performance
Ideas and themes central to both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy converge in the work of some of the world’s most celebrated contemporary artists. Utilizing little or no technology, these artists nonetheless employ “systems” approaches and protocybernetic models, while simultaneously exploring themes directly related to existentialism
Cybernetic-Existentialism in Performance Art
A theory of Cybernetic-Existentialism is proposed to offer a new critical perspective on technological performance art. Case studies of Wafaa Bilal, Stelarc and Steve Mann are used to demonstrate how core ideas and themes from both cybernetics and existentialism are increasingly converging in contemporary arts
A Telepresence Stage
This report describes the authors’ research project ‘Telepresence Stage’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘COVID-19 Rapid Response’ scheme. The project aims to develop effective and affordable new approaches to connect performers from their separate homes and place them within virtual sets online where they can rehearse and perform together. The report discusses the history of telematic performance and explains how thi…
Collaboration and Co-finitude
Computer Science (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Visual arts (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Art, Technology, and Culture (5 works) · Multimedia (5 works)