Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)

ISBN 10: 1472429729 / ISBN 13: 9781472429728

Published by Routledge, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472429729
• ISBN 13: 9781472429728
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Digital technologies have transformed archives in every area of their form and function, and as technologies mature so does their capacity to change our understanding and experience of material and performative cultural production. There has been an exponential explosion in the production and consumption of video online and yet there is a scarcity of knowledge and cases about video and the digital archive. This book seeks to address that through the lens of the project Circus Oz Living Archive. This project provides the case study foundation for the articulation of the issues, challenges and possibilities that the design and development of digital archives afford. Drawn from eight different disciplines and professions, the authors explore what it means to embrace the possibilities of digital technologies to transform contemporary cultural institutions and their archives into new methods of performance, representation and history.

About the Author

David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan are both Associate Professors in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Australia.