Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage

by Sarah Whatley (Editor), Rosamaria K. Cisneros (Editor), Amalia Sabiescu (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible cultural heritage, from music and storytelling to dance, theatre and martial arts. Cases of digital technology interventions are provided from different geographical and cultural settings, from Europe to Asia and the Americas. Together, the collection reflects on the implications that digital interventions have on intangible cultural heritage engagements, its curation and transmission in diverse localities. The volume is a valuable resource for discovering the multiple ways in which cultural heritage is mediated through digital technologies, and engages with audiences, artists, users and researchers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319738178
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	05/07/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK.
Rosamaria K. Cisneros is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK, and also an independent artist, film-maker, dancer and choreographer. 
Amalia Sabiescu is Communications Researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London, UK.

Table of Contents

​1 Introduction Sarah Whatley, Rosamaria K. Cisneros, and Amalia SabiescuPart I Critical and Reflexive Engagements 2 Considering the Relationship Between Digitally MediatedAudience Engagement and the Dance-Making Process Laura Griffiths and Ben Walmsley3 Performing the Uncanny: Psychoanalysis, Aestheticsand the Digital Double Suparna Banerjee4 The Implications of Technology in Dance: A Dancer’sPerspective of Moving in Media-RichEnvironments Kerry FrancksenPart II Space, Time and Memory: Digital Interventions 5 Bark and Butterflies: Redeeming the Past—DigitalInterventions into Post-Memory Adrian Palka6 Chorotopical Art: Mediating the Atmospheres of CulturalSites to Create a New Spatial Logic Liana Psarologaki7 (Ukulele) Strings of Knowledge: Tactile and DigitalInteractivity with Archives and Ethnography Rachel M. Ward and Kate Hennessy8 Open State: Event Spaces of Infinite Perspective Adam Benjamin and Mathew EmmettPart III Preserving the Intangible: New Tools andDocumentation Strategies 9 Demystifying or Destroying? Cultural Heritageand Tradition in Playing the Tabla, and Developingthe Electronic Tabla and Digital Notation System Jerri Daboo10 Digital Environments for Intercultural Content: A CaseStudy on the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive Alvin Eng Hui Lim11 Mediating and Visualizing Paxton’s Material forthe Spine Rebecca Stancliffe12 In/Tangible: The Duality of Video Documentationin Dance Heather Young Reed13 Kapturing Kung Fu: Future Proofing the Hong KongMartial Arts Living Archive Hing Chao, Matt Delbridge, Sarah Kenderdine,Lydia Nicholson, and Jeffrey ShawPart IV Authorship, Ownership and Legal Aspects 14 Presenting the Intangible: Curating the IntangibleCultural Heritage in the Museum Practice—Legal Aspects Teodora Konach15 Artworks-Spawning-Artworks: Trans-DisciplinaryApproaches to Artistic Spin-Offs and Evolutionin the Dance and Digital Context Jordan Beth Vincent, Caitlin Vincent, Kim Vincs,Scott deLahunta, and John McCormick16 Preservation and Paradox: Choreographic Authorshipin the Digital Sphere Hetty Blades17 Dance and Law: From Indifference to Rapport Charlotte WaeldeIndex 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This perceptively curated volume offers a range of philosophical and creative perspectives on intersections between performance-based cultural heritage and digital media. Spanning Europe, Asia and the Americas, and exploring contexts across music, dance, theatre, story-telling and martial arts, the book reflects a rich diversity of approaches and highlights some important overarching implications.” (Professor Sita Popat, Chair in Performance and Technology, University of Leeds, UK)

“This is a most timely volume for researchers and practitioners in the field of performing arts and their digital preservation. Attempting to capture and document intangible forms of cultural heritage is undoubtedly a complex task, but the authors of these cross-discipline chapters have managed to render into words the resonant echoes of extremely fragile “dance stories” which could have, otherwise, been lost in their own times and spaces.” (Professor Carla Fernandes, FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)