Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance.

A range of inter-disciplinary discourses consider the computer-mediated writing space as a unique performance medium with characteristic protocols. Drawing on contemporary performance theory, literary criticism, and communication theory, the author proposes that technologists, academics, and artists...

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Publicado en:Computers & the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 319 - 345
Autor principal: Soules, Marshall
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2002
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Sumario:A range of inter-disciplinary discourses consider the computer-mediated writing space as a unique performance medium with characteristic protocols. Drawing on contemporary performance theory, literary criticism, and communication theory, the author proposes that technologists, academics, and artists are developing idiomatic rhetorics – a lingua franca – to explore the technical and expressive properties of the new ``language machines'' and their hypertextual environments. The role of improvisation – and its cross-disciplinary protocols – provides a further focus in the discussion of computing practice and performance.