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Digital Bodies

Creativity and Technology in the Arts and Humanities

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Draws from digital technology research to explore our ideas of the body and creativity in a new light
  • Explore the possibility of a new, and virtual, sense of embodied self
  • Maps the synergies and differences in the theorisation of the body and technology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology (PSPT)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction

    • Susan Broadhurst, Sara Price
    Pages 1-7
  3. The Performing Body: Creativity and Technology in Performance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
    2. Digital Performance and Creativity

      • Susan Broadhurst
      Pages 11-25
    3. Metakimospheres

      • Johannes Birringer
      Pages 27-48
    4. Karen by Blast Theory: Leaking Privacy

      • Maria Chatzichristodoulou
      Pages 65-78
  4. Designing, (Re)designing: Embodiment and Digital Creativity in Art Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
    2. Bodies in Light: Mediating States of Presence

      • Michaela French
      Pages 81-95
    3. The Embodiment of Time

      • Helga Schmid
      Pages 97-109
  5. Digital Aesthetics and Identity: Creativity in Fashion Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
    2. Post-industrial Fashion and the Digital Body

      • Douglas Atkinson
      Pages 147-160
    3. Giving Body to Digital Fashion Tools

      • Bruna Petreca
      Pages 191-204
  6. Embodied Interaction: Digital Communication and Meaning Making in the Social Sciences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-206

About this book

​This book explores technologies related to bodily interaction and creativity from a multi-disciplinary perspective. By taking such an approach, the collection offers a comprehensive view of digital technology research that both extends our notions of the body and creativity through a digital lens, and informs of the role of technology in practices central to the arts and humanities. Crucially, Digital Bodies foregrounds creativity, the interrogation of technologies and the notion of embodiment within the various disciplines of art, design, performance and social science. In doing so, it explores a potential or virtual new sense of the embodied self. This book will appeal to academics, practitioners and those with an interest in not only how digital technologies affect the body, but also how they can enhance human creativity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

    Susan Broadhurst

  • University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Sara Price

About the editors

Susan Broadhurst is Professor of Performance at Brunel University, UK, as well as a writer and performance practitioner. She has published widely, focusing on the interrogation of the body through the medium of technologically informed Arts and Performance practices. Susan is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology series and of the EBSCO-indexed Body, Space & Technology online journal.


Sara Price is Professor of Digital Learning at University College London, UK. She has extensive experience in Human Computer Interaction, and has published widely on the design, development and evaluation of emergent digital technologies for learning. She is joint editor for the British Journal of Educational Technology, and lead editor of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Technology Research.

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