Thinking Images

Johannes Birringer is a choreographer, media artist and critic. His latest stage production, Suna no Onna, opened at the Laban Center, London, in December 2007. He is the founder of Interaktionslabor, an independent media laboratory based in Germany, and directs the Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, London. His new book, Performance, Technology, and Science, from which this interview is excerpted, will be published by PAJ Publications in the spring of 2008.