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“Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”: Body-Related Performance Art in Second Life

“Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”: Body-Related Performance Art in Second Life

Maja Murnik
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466683846|ISBN10: 1466683848|EISBN13: 9781466683853
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch010
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Murnik, Maja. "“Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”: Body-Related Performance Art in Second Life." New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, edited by Denise Doyle, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 216-231. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch010

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Murnik, M. (2015). “Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”: Body-Related Performance Art in Second Life. In D. Doyle (Ed.), New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds (pp. 216-231). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch010

Chicago

Murnik, Maja. "“Follow Me, Comrades in Flight, into the Depths!”: Body-Related Performance Art in Second Life." In New Opportunities for Artistic Practice in Virtual Worlds, edited by Denise Doyle, 216-231. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8384-6.ch010

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Abstract

The chapter discusses the changes the body has been subjected to in the 21st century and especially when it enters the digital worlds. The starting point for the reflection of the body today is its floating position in contemporary mixed and augmented reality. By deploying the notions of ‘body image' and ‘body schema,' elaborated by French phenomenologist M. Merleau-Ponty, various features of digital embodiment are discussed. After discussing several forms of the techno-modelled body (also mentioning the issue of life addressed in it), the chapter turns to the examples of body-related performance art in the virtual world of Second Life that explicitly raise questions about the body in the digital world, and within Second Life in particular (the examples discussed are: Synthetic Performances and I know that it's all a state of mind by 0100101110101101.ORG, Come to Heaven by Gazira Babeli and ZeroG SkyDancers by DanCoyote, etc.).

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