Performans zmediatyzowany. Hot or not?
Medial Performance – Hot or Not?

Summary/Abstract: Text is trying to give a definition of performance studies as a new research perspective in context of new media. For author important is relation between artistic performance and everyday performance. Main goal of the text is showing a relation between develop of performance studies and dispute about using new media by theater and performance artists. At the same time this text is showing, how conflict between theoretics from Silicon Valley had an influence in performance studies. New media as a cultural phenomenon are crucial for performance art, because it based on physical presence of sender and receiver the communicate. Author is focused on new media role in culture and their influence on performance art. Therefore, the author compares and tries to and similarity between the two performers that use new media in their works, Steve Kardinal and Merce Cunningham, whose activities are located at the two poles of performance art.

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