Moving without a Body by Stamatia Portanova - ISBN: 9780262551175
Paperback
Movement unbound: Choreography reimagined in the digital age.

Moving without a Body

Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts

  • Paperback

    200 pages

  • Release Date

    6 February 2024

Summary

A radically empirical exploration of movement and technology and the transformations of choreography in a digital realm.

Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the rad…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262551175
ISBN-10:0262551179
Author:Stamatia Portanova
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:200
Release Date:6 February 2024
Weight:369g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
Series:Technologies of Lived Abstraction
Audience Age:18
About The Author

Stamatia Portanova

Stamatia Portanova is Research Fellow at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Universit degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” (Naples) and the author of Moving without a Body- Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts (MIT Press). She has published articles in AI & Society, Body & Society, Computational Culture, Space and Culture, Fibreculture Journal, and Angelaki.

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