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26
U Frohne and C Katti, ‘Crossing Boundaries in Cyberspace? The Politics
of ‘Body’ and ‘Language’ after the Emergence of New Media,’ Art Journal,
Volume 59 No 4, Winter 2000, p. 9.
27
Ibid.
28
R Schneider, The Explicit Body in Performance, Routledge, London, 1997,
p. 2.
29
Ibid.
30
Ibid, pp. 1-3.
31
Ibid.
32
J Dolan, ‘Bending Gender to Fit the Canon: The Politics of Production’ in
L Hart (ed), Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary
Women’s Theatre, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1989.
33
See E Fuchs, ‘Staging the Obscene Body,’ TDR, Volume 33 Number 1,
1989.
34
See E Diamond, ‘Mimesis, Mimicry, and the True Real,’ Modern Drama,
Volume 32 Number 1, 1989 and ‘The Shudder of Catharsis’ in A Parker and
EK Sedgwick (eds), Performance and Performativity, Routledge, London,
1995.
35
The Australian performance and new media artist Stelarc provides an
interesting bridge between the performance of the explicit body in
performance and digital art. From his earliest works with suspensions to his
latest with prostheses, Stelarc has “with the use of harsh procedures [re-
examined] the body itself and its representation.” In “contact with new
technologies” (B Kunst, ‘Orifices and Fluids,’ Frakcija, Numbers 6/7,
January, 1998, <http://www2.arnes.si/~ljintima2/kunst/t-oaf.html> (viewed
January 10, 2006), Stelarc blurs the distinction “between what an organism is
and what a mechanism is” (M J Jones, ‘Stelarc,’ Cyberstage, Issue 1.2,
Spring, 1995 <http://www.cyberstage.org/archive/cstage12/stelrc.htm>
(viewed January 10, 2001).
36
Hansen, New Philosophy for New Media, p. 614
37
B Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation, Duke
University Press, Durham, NC, 2002, p. 8.
38
Ibid.
39
M Morse, ‘Video Installation Art: The Body, the Image, and the Space-in-
Between’ in D Hall & SJ Fifer (eds), Illuminating Video, Aperture, New
York, 1991, p. 155. With regards to the contemporary use of the term
“interactive” it is interesting to note, with Ann-Sargent Wooster, that “It was
less than thirty years ago when the term interactive was first used in reference
to computers, and it was used to describe the then breathtaking but now
humble function of being able to interrupt a computer run” (‘Reach out and
Touch Someone: The Romance of Interactivity’ in Ibid, p. 288). “Computers