The first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat s fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are available on a scale never before imaginable.

Drawing upon the work of practioners and theorists in the arts, communications and technology theorists and, Invisible Connections makes special reference to Popat s series of Internet-based choreography projects from...

Art and thought, what is the nature of this relationship? What kind of thought comes from art and how do we define it?
When the art in question is academic research, how is it situated both in terms of higher education and art practice in a wider sense?
"Thinking Through Art" takes an innovative look at artists' experiences of undertaking doctorates. If the making of art is not simply the formulation of an object but is also the formation of complex ideas then what effect does academic enquiry have on art practice?
The artists, philosophers, art historians and cultural theorists...

Practices in the arts have changed radically over the past two decades, as have the social and economic contexts in which the arts are produced. This book asks how arts education - particularly in visual art - has changed to meet new needs or shape new futures for its production and reception. The first section introduces broad contextual frameworks. The second examines new directions in practice. The third and longest section gives cases from and insights into a changing pedagogy.

Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.

New Visions in Performance features the work of twelve performers and academics who are concerned with the integration of digital technologies into theatrical performance.