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Be[ing] You: In[bodi]mental a Real-Time Body Swapping Video Performance

Be[ing] You: In[bodi]mental a Real-Time Body Swapping Video Performance

Lorna Ann Moore
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781466682054|ISBN10: 1466682051|EISBN13: 9781466682061
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch002
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Moore, Lorna Ann. "Be[ing] You: In[bodi]mental a Real-Time Body Swapping Video Performance." Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies, edited by Dew Harrison, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 18-32. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch002

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Moore, L. A. (2015). Be[ing] You: In[bodi]mental a Real-Time Body Swapping Video Performance. In D. Harrison (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies (pp. 18-32). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch002

Chicago

Moore, Lorna Ann. "Be[ing] You: In[bodi]mental a Real-Time Body Swapping Video Performance." In Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies, edited by Dew Harrison, 18-32. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8205-4.ch002

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the one-to-one interactions between participants in the video performance In[bodi]mental. It presents personal accounts of users' body swapping experiences through real-time Head Mounted Display systems. These inter-corporeal encounters are articulated through the lens of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and his work on the “Mirror Stage” (1977), phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1968) and his writings on the Chiasm, and anthropologist Rane Willerslev's (2007) research on mimesis. The study of these positions provides new insights into the blurred relationship between the corporeal Self and the digital Other. The way the material body is stretched across these divisions highlights the way digital media is the catalyst in this in[bodied] experience of be[ing] in the world. The purpose of this chapter is to challenge the relationship between the body and video performance to appreciate the impact digital media has on one's perception of a single bounded self and how two selves become an inter-corporeal experience shared through the technology.

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