PANEL: Bodies In Technology And In New Media
Melvin Backstrom, George Blake, Rebecca Caines, James Gordon Williams
Published: 2010-09-08
Four different presentations explore the body in relation to new media/technologies. James Gordon Williams presents a paper entitled: "Chopped 'n' Screwed: T-Pain's Improvising Body as a Virtual Simulacrum for Agency". Rebecca Caines presents a paper entitled: "(e)Scaping the Body: Working with Communities in New Media Improvisation". Melvin Backstrom presents a paper entitled: "'Was That Really a Performance?': Laptop Music and its Specters". George Blake presents a paper entitled: "A New Rhythm to an Old Form: Tradition, Innovation, and the Trope of Syncopation in 'Late Minstrelsy'".
