Routledge Companion to Performance and Technology by Maaike B... - 9781032678603

Routledge Companion to Performance and TechnologyAuthor(s): Maaike Bleeker, Norah Zuniga Shaw\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032678603, 978-1032678603\nSynopsis\nTechnology has become fully integrated into the ecologies in which we live, including our ways of making and making sense of theater, dance, and performance.\n\nWhile these practices have long histories of incorporating tools and instruments in live performances, from masks, to amplification, lighting, and stagecraft, technology today can no longer be understood as a tool complementing essentially non?technological behaviors or environments. Technologies and how they are developed and used are informed by ideas, assumptions, and practices that are culturally and historically situated and have material impacts. Whether implicitly or intentionally, we are always already operating in and requiring creative and critical means of engaging with technoscienti.