The Institute of Creative Technologies

Digital Textuality with/in Performance
Arnolfini Bristol
 2012 May 3-4, hosted by the University College Falmouth

There was a good DMU presence at this seminar programme under the HERA networks initiative:

Participants attending this ELMCIP  investigated the relationship between e-literature/digital text and performance. Members of the ELMCIP project, international speakers and practitioners  discussed the function and understanding of performativity and its relationship to digital literature through a series of papers, presentations and practical engagements.

"Although the field of e-literature is rife with references to performance, they have tended to remain relatively untheorised. In the main, analysis or investigation of performance is restricted to either the relationship between the textual output (on the interface or projected into a performance space) and the live body responding performatively to that text or else generating text through performance. There has been little attempt to fold digital text performance into the wider context of the 'turn to performance' among the humanities in recent decades. 

It is against this background -- of performance studies, ordinary language philosophy and speech act theory, the ethnography of ritual, performance of self and gender, performance writing, etc. -- that the conference will take place.While continuing the investigation of live performance, we will be seeking to broaden the scope to include: interactivity; the performative gesture of the hand and fingers (digital text) on the interface; the performativity of language itself on the screen; social performance, or how digital texts ‘perform’ us; the performance of codes and scripting; and the performance of the machine itself, i.e., what does an engineer mean when s/he talks about performance? In other words, we will be looking at the different modes of performance as they are manifest across the whole digital environment (dispositif) and, in order to give a fuller account of this complex of performative modes, we will also be investigating how they interact with each other."

•  Conference proceedings, along with artist’s pages, will be published in a dedicated issue of the journal Performance Research (2013)
  
  UCF ELMCIP seminar - Arnolfini Bristol
  
  
  Machinic Performance and architecture
  
  Jerome Fletcher (UCF) Performance and the Digital Text.
  John Lumley (Univ. of Nottingham) Machinic performance.
  
  The place/role of the body in digital performance;Body and machine
  
  
  Alexandra Saemmer (Univ. of Paris 8): Reading (de)coherent
  hypertexts: a creative performance based on a close reading of the
  German hyperfiction Zeit für die Bombe
  
  Maria Engberg (BTH): Touch and Gesture as Aesthetic Experience:
  
  Clive Fencott: Performance as a Categoriser
  Joerg Piringer: Software - performance of code.
  
  Cristophe Collard (Free Univ. of Brussels): Jesurun’s digitalist Firefall:
  Staging the analogical relation as cognitive performance.
  
  
  Giovanna di Rosario (Univ. of Jyvaskyla): ‘Reading’ Performance:
  Eugenio Tisselli’s Wen
  
  David Prater: "Davey Dreamnation and the Performance of Self"
   How digital language performs. Reading digital performance. Presentation of work
  
  Christine Wilks: Out of Touch - a digital text performance
  
  Martin Rieser (Univ. of Kingston): Performed poetics in multi-linear narrative situations
  
  Paula Crutchlow: Make Shift
  
  Annie Abrahams
  cris cheek
  
  Joerg Piringer
  Donna Leishman
  J.R. Carpenter