Moving without a Body

Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts

Stamatia Portanova (Independent scholar)

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MIT Press
06 February 2024

Electronic, holographic & video art; Choreography

Series: Technologies of Lived Abstraction

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

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 radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does not amount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become.

Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution, including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers these technologies and dances as ways to think-rather than just perform or perceive-movement. She distinguishes the choreographic thought from the performance- a body performs a movement, and a mind thinks or choreographs a dance. Similarly, she sees the move from analog to digital as a shift in conception rather than simply in technical realization. Analyzing choreographic technologies for their capacity to redesign the way movement is thought, Moving without a Body offers an ambitiously conceived reflection on the ontological implications of the encounter between movement and technological systems.

By: Stamatia Portanova (Independent scholar)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262551175
ISBN 10: 0262551179
Series: Technologies of Lived Abstraction
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.