Performing Presence

Performing PresencePerforming presence: Between the live and the simulated proposes that the advent of new media forms, and the increasing integration of contemporary performance and media, has generated new engagements, practices and understandings of presence. Addressing new media art and performance, multi media theatre, video installation, mixed reality environments and locative arts, the book presents case studies of work by Lynn Hershman Leeson, Paul Sermon, Gary

the important but often overlooked creator of screen fairytales

the oldest of the UN human rights treaties

The result of extensive research about our notions of the city and the person throughout time

programming methodologies

Ranges chronologically and geographically from the seventh century to the eve of the Reformation

Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it

It’s a story of how the bikini swimwear came to fetishise the nuclear bombardment of the Bikini Atoll with its celebration of ‘sex bombs’ and (an)atomic ‘bombshells’

and health care--has impacted on the policy systems of states and international organizations

Since the late 1960s

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history

at its heart

This book discusses changes that have taken place in diplomatic institutions and conventions over thousands of years