The Machinic City

Media, Performance and Participation

Marcos P. Dias

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English

Manchester University Press
23 March 2021

Man-made objects depicted in art (cityscapes & machines); Media studies; Human geography; Urban & municipal planning

Series: Materialising the Digital

This book provides an original perspective on the role of performance art towards reflecting on contemporary urban life, with analyses in detail key projects of digitally meditated performance art in urban space from renowned artists.

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. As social and spatial interactions in the city become increasingly mediated by machines, performance art can help us reflect on the new modes of subjectivity that emerge as human and machine agency become intermingled and digital media permeates the urban fabric.

Several case studies of urban art interventions are analysed and discussed as examples of the potential of the aesthetic machine of performance art, as it assembles with media, Capitalist, human and urban machines. These case studies reveal the importance of acknowledging dissensus as a constitutive factor of urban life and as a means of countering machinist determinism in present and future conceptualisations of city life.

By: Marcos P. Dias
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
ISBN: 9781526135780
ISBN 10: 1526135787
Series: Materialising the Digital
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 23 March 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marcos P. Dias is Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at Dublin City University -- .

Reviews for The Machinic City: Media, Performance and Participation

'Dias' inspiring study makes clear that cities and machines are not always smart. His fascinating case studies show how performance art is perfectly placed to reveal the unpredictable, uncanny, powerful, playful and dysfunctional aspects of both. Drawing on perspectives ranging from philosophy and machine aesthetics to posthumanism and urban studies, Dias shines new light on our contemporary experience of the machinic city in bold and remarkable ways.' Steve Dixon, Professor at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, and author of Cybernetic-Existentialism and Digital Performance -- .