David Carlin - Performing Digital: Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive

PERFORMING DIGITAL

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Multiple Perspectives on a Living Archive

Edited by

DAVID CARLIN
RMIT University, Australia

LAURENE VAUGHAN,
RMIT University, Australia

First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing

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Performing digital : multiple perspectives on a living archive / by David Carlin and

Laurene Vaughan [editors].

pages cm (Digital research in the arts and humanities)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-2972-8 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-3155-9996-0 (ebook) ISBN 978-1-3170-8244-6 (epub) 1. Performing artsResearchMethodology. 2. Performing artsResearchTechnological innovations. 3. Digital videoResearchMethodology. 4. Technology and the arts. 5. Performing artsTechnological innovations. I. Carlin, David, 1963 editor. II. Vaughan, Laurene, 1964 editor. III. Title.

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David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan

David Carlin

Ross Gibson

Adrian Miles

Laurene Vaughan

Laetitia Shand

Mitchell Whitelaw

James A. Thom

Reuben Stanton

Lukman Iwan

Laetitia Shand

Andrew Morrison, Timo Arnall, Kjetil Nordby and Even Westvang

Peta Tait

Jane Mullett

Kim Baston

David Carlin and Laurene Vaughan

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Editors

David Carlin is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where he co-directs the nonfictionLab Research Group. He has led the Circus Oz Living Archive project since 2008. His work includes the literary nonfiction books Our Father Who Wasnt There (2010) and The Abyssinian Contortionist (2015); the documentary film Out of Our Minds (2000); and essays and articles in Griffith Review, Overland, TEXT, Continuum, and other journals. He has written and directed for theatre and film, and directed the 1997 Circus Oz show touring Australia and to New Yorks New Victory Theatre.

Laurene Vaughan is Professor in Design at RMIT University. As a design researcher and practitioner, she is passionately intrigued by the ways that we design our experiences of the everyday. This design may be by professionals or lay designers, and the everyday may be mundane or extraordinary. She has co-edited Designing Place: An Archaeology of the Western District and The Design Collective: An Approach to Practice.

Authors

Timo Arnall led the Touch research project on interaction design and radio-frequency identification (RFID) at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in Norway, and has been Creative Director at Berg, London.

Kim Baston has spent many years working as an actor, director and composer in theatre and film, in the UK and in Australia. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University, and lectures on circus history and culture at the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA).

Sebastian Chan is Director of Digital and Emerging Media at the Smithsonians Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, and is responsible for the museums complete digital renewal during a time when it is rebuilding and transforming into a Twenty-First Century Museum. Previously he was Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at Sydneys Powerhouse Museum, and he has worked as a museum consultant for institutions throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. He writes the popular Fresh & New blog; serves on several non-profit boards; and is a regular speaker at digital and cultural sector conferences and events.

Ross Gibson is Centenary Professor at the University of Canberra. He was Creative Director for the establishment of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and a Senior Consultant Producer for the establishment of the Museum of Sydney. His works include the books Seven Versions of an Australian Badland (2002), The Summer Exercises (2009), and 26 Views of the Starburst World (2012); a three-month durational work entitled Conversations II for the Biennale of Sydney (2008); and the video installation Street X-Rays (200513).

Lukman Iwan is a PhD student at the school of computer science and IT, RMIT University. He received a bachelors degree from Padjadjaran University, Indonesia and an MCS degree from Monash University, Australia, both in computer science. His research interests include data mining, pattern mining, information retrieval and video processing.