Performing The Digital: Performance Studies And Performances In Digital Cultures

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How is performativity shaped by digital media – and how do performance practices themselves reflect and alter techno-social configurations? Performing the Digital inquires into the technological terms and conditions of performance and performance studies and maps and theorizes the registers of performance at work in digital cultures. The contributions range from the performativity of algorithms and digital devices to the modulation of affect, atmospheres, and the body; from performing cities, protest, organization, and the economy to the scholarly performances of research. Cover Contents INTRODUCING Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures HISTORICIZING Performing (the) digital. Positions of critique in digital cultures ANNOTATING Making digital choreographic objects interrelate: A focus on coding practices AFFECTING Speculation about 1:0. On the productive difference of the interval TRADING The noisy motions of instruments: The performative space of digital finance ENCRYPTING Performing encryption PROTESTING Mobile phone signals and protest crowds: Performing an unstable post-media constellation MAPPING Mapping invisibility: Surveillance art and the potential of performative cartography TAGGING The big urban game, re-play and full city tags: Art game conceptions in activism and performance CO-PRODUCING From flâneur to co-creator: The performative spectator INSTITUTING Performing institutions: A catalogue of performative practices ORGANIZING ‘The machine could swallow everything.’ Satin Island and performing organization CRASHING Performing the economy, digital media and crisis. A critique of Michel Callon DEMOCRATIZING Performance and democratizing digitality: StudioLab as critical design pedagogy Notes on contributors