Putnam, El (2023) Pseudorandom: generative animation as performance in Emergent (2020–2022). International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 19 (2). pp. 264-282. ISSN 1479-4713
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Abstract
The body is the database of lived experience. Emergent was created
during COVID-19 from the desire to explore the extended
possibilities of digital performance beyond lens-based media. The
work includes generative animations and sound compositions
using data collected from a consumer fitness tracker worn since
the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. As a portrait of
experience through the data body (as both body of data and body
producing data), Emergent engages with the memories of the flesh,
becoming the impetus for aesthetic encounters through digital
performance. In this article about the work, Putnam describes how
it was produced, provides a detailed overview of the work and its
theoretical context, and discusses how it functions as a digital
performance between the artist and computer. The result is a work
where data visualisation and sonification generates ambiguity,
rather than clarity, introducing difference in how biometric sensing
devices are used and understood.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Digital performance; generative animation; COVID-19; exploratory computing; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > Media Studies |
Item ID: | 19853 |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/14794713.2023.2179784 |
Depositing User: | El Putnam |
Date Deposited: | 22 May 2025 09:12 |
Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19853 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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