Acts of Presence: Performance, Mediation, Virtual Reality

Kaye, Nick; Giannachi, Gabriella

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00124

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December 01 2011

Acts of Presence: Performance, Mediation, Virtual Reality

Nick Kaye,

Nick Kaye

Nick Kaye is Dean of Humanities and Professor of Performance Studies, University of Exeter, UK. His books include Postmodernism and Performance (Palgrave, 1994); Art into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents (Routledge, 1996); Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (Routledge, 2000); Staging the Post-Avant-Garde: Italian Performance After 1970, with Gabriella Giannachi (Peter Lang, 2002); Multi-media: Video-Installation-Performance (Routledge, 2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, with Gabriella Giannachi (Manchester University Press, 2011). From 2005 to 2010 he led Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated (http://presence.stanford.edu/) in collaboration with Gabriella Giannachi, a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Gabriella Giannachi

Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter. Her most recent and forthcoming book publications include: Virtual Theatres: an Introduction (Routledge, 2004); Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, ed. with Nigel Stewart (Peter Lang, 2005); The Politics of New Media Theatre (Routledge, 2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, coauthored with Nick Kaye (Manchester University Press, 2011); Archaeologies of Presence, coedited with Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks (Routledge, forthcoming) and Performing Mixed Reality, coauthored with Steve Benford (MIT Press, 2011).

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Nick Kaye

Nick Kaye is Dean of Humanities and Professor of Performance Studies, University of Exeter, UK. His books include Postmodernism and Performance (Palgrave, 1994); Art into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents (Routledge, 1996); Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation (Routledge, 2000); Staging the Post-Avant-Garde: Italian Performance After 1970, with Gabriella Giannachi (Peter Lang, 2002); Multi-media: Video-Installation-Performance (Routledge, 2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, with Gabriella Giannachi (Manchester University Press, 2011). From 2005 to 2010 he led Performing Presence: from the live to the simulated (http://presence.stanford.edu/) in collaboration with Gabriella Giannachi, a research project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Gabriella Giannachi

Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter. Her most recent and forthcoming book publications include: Virtual Theatres: an Introduction (Routledge, 2004); Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, ed. with Nigel Stewart (Peter Lang, 2005); The Politics of New Media Theatre (Routledge, 2007); Performing Presence: Between the Live and the Simulated, coauthored with Nick Kaye (Manchester University Press, 2011); Archaeologies of Presence, coedited with Nick Kaye and Michael Shanks (Routledge, forthcoming) and Performing Mixed Reality, coauthored with Steve Benford (MIT Press, 2011).

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2011

TDR/The Drama Review (2011) 55 (4 (212)): 88–95.

https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00124

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The Acts of Presence: Performing Presence CAVE Scenarios DVD-ROM accompanies this article. Presence is central to the operation of immersive virtual reality facilities. These VR technologies explore how phenomena of presence are performed, mediated, and experienced by individual participants, defining questions in computer science that can be advanced through performance theory, while offering new ways of thinking around liveness and mediation.

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