This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.
This book explores a "New Humanism" in the performing arts, unique in the sense of human's ability to co-create and communicate beyond spatial and temporal boundaries, wars, and pandemics, through artistic deviations carried out by machines and through the Extended Reality. Through the lens of anthropology and aesthetics, this study selects useful case studies to demonstrate this phenomenon of performative symphonises. In which the experimentation of AI-driven creativity and the new interaction HRI leads to philosophical inquiries about the nature of creativity, intelligence, and the definition of art itself. These shifts in paradigms invite us to reconsider established concepts and explore new perspectives on the relationship between technology, art, and the human experience.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, anthropology, and digital humanities.
This book refers to the artistic deviation from dominant goals in a social system or from means considered legitimate in that system.
Introduction
1. Anthropological and Performative Paradoxes on the Contemporary Stage
1.1 Deconstructing the Human: An Artistic Paradox
1.2. AI-Driven Performance Inspired by Human
1.3. Collaborative Creativity in the Digital Age: Exploring AI as a Co-Author
2. Performative Migrations: Between Dissolution and Metamorphosis
2.1. Redefining Performance in Virtual Reality
2.2. Living (in) Anothers Body
2.3. Digital Puppeteering: The Transformation of the Human Body through
Emerging Technologies
3. Artistic Experimentation and the Role of Performing Robots
3.1. Machines Like Me: Rimini Protokolls Uncanny Valley
3.2. Exploring Human-Robot Interactions through Dance
3.3. The Harmonious Dialogue between Man and Machine: The Pas de Deux of
Huang Yi & Kuka
4. Rethinking Linear Perspective in Contemporary Theatrical Studies
4.1. Performative Deviations: Exploring the Intersection of Technology and
Art
4.2. Space, Time, and Reality
4.3. Traditional and New Trajectories in Theatrical Anthropology
Index
Ester Fuoco is a Senior Researcher in Performing Arts at the IULM University. In 2019, she obtained a PhD in Digital Humanities from the University of Genoa through a joint program with Paris 7 University. In 2021, she received a research grant at the Institute of Biorobotics at the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies. From 2022 to 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher on a project titled "Onlife Theatre: Creative and Reception Convergences between Live, Digital, and Transmediality". Her main research areas focus on the use of new technologies in performance from an anthropological and aesthetic perspective.
