I was honoured to discover that a work I created in collaboration with fellow “Slavic pixel princess” Slavica Ceperkovic was mentioned in a book recently released on MIT Press.
Here is a little bit about the book, Digital Performance, by Steve Dixon:
The past decade has seen an extraordinarily intense period of experimentation with computer technology within the performing arts. Digital media has been increasingly incorporated into live theater and dance, and new forms of interactive performance have emerged in participatory installations, on CD-ROM, and on the Web. In Digital Performance, Steve Dixon traces the evolution of these practices, presents detailed accounts of key practitioners and performances, and analyzes the theoretical, artistic, and technological contexts of this form of new media art.
You can read more about the book at the MIT Press website.
take take cake cake was a live video mixing performance that Slavica and I produced in 2000 to a packed house, garbed in aprons and surrounded by video stills from our source materials on the gallery walls. Of course, we served cake afterwards! Theorist Ger Zielinski wrote a short essay about the performance, and in it he asks: “Is it simply humble electronic borscht or gloriously pixelly strudel?” To that I say, our work is prepared to order – let the audience decide what they’re hungry for!