Fear of Flight: Expanded Presence and Inter-sensory Gesture in Multimedia Performance

Fear of Flight investigates the intersection of surround audiovisual composition and live performance to draw meaningful conclusions about the experience of presence and the role of the performer within immersive media composition. Among the theoretical issues that contributed to Fear of Flight ’s development are the impact of immersion on the perception of compositional dialog, and the mechanisms by which presence may be expanded and dislocated from a performing body through mediation.

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Freida Abtan

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Publication date: August 2019

Publication date (Print): August 2019

Pages: 237-242

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[0001]Goldsmiths, University of London

London, United Kingdom

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.36

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

Conference acronym: RE:SOUND 2019

Conference number: 8

Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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J. L. Austin 1962 How to Do Things with Words Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass
M Dishon-BerkovitsD. Algom 2000 The Stroop effect: It is not the robust phenomenon that you have thought it to be Memory & Cognition 28.8. 1437-1449
R. E. KlichE. Scheer 2012 Multimedia Performance Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke
C. Power 2008 Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre Rudopi Amsterdam and New York

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[1] J. L. Austin 1962 How to Do Things with Words Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass

[2] M Dishon-BerkovitsD. Algom 2000 The Stroop effect: It is not the robust phenomenon that you have thought it to be Memory & Cognition 28.8. 1437-1449

[3] R. E. KlichE. Scheer 2012 Multimedia Performance Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke

[4] C. Power 2008 Presence in Play: A Critique of Theories of Presence in the Theatre Rudopi Amsterdam and New York

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