Auto-play : the automation of performance action, writing, and control
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation discusses a series of artists who, throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, have attempted to automate theatrical processes. Offering a model of "automaticity" as disintermediation and opacity, encompassing the traditions of both automatism and automation, I argue that thinkers of the theater have long juxtaposed automaticity with theatricality. However, as my case studies demonstrate, the automatic and the theatrical can indeed be integrated. Abstract action has been mechanized, dances have been computationally scored, and backstage control has been automated. I analyze performance practices of artists from the avant-garde canon, from experimental margins, and from the commercial mainstream: central figures include Raymond Roussel, László Moholy-Nagy, Jeanne Beaman, Analívia Cordeiro, Frederick Bentham, and Robert Wilson. Throughout, I explore the liberal and neoliberal politics of automaticity, consider the images of femininity and blackness attached to the automatic, and conclude that the conjunction of automaticity and theatricality is dominant within contemporary stage practice and social relations
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Eacho, Douglas |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Thesis advisor | Jakovljević, Branislav |
| Thesis advisor | Moreton-Robinson, Aileen |
| Thesis advisor | Smith, Matthew Wilson |
| Degree committee member | Moreton-Robinson, Aileen |
| Degree committee member | Smith, Matthew Wilson |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Douglas Eacho |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Douglas Eacho
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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