Animating the Language Machine: Computers and Performance

A range of inter-disciplinarydiscourses consider the computer-mediatedwriting space as a unique performance mediumwith characteristic protocols. Drawing oncontemporary performance theory, literarycriticism, and communication theory, the authorproposes that technologists, academics, andartists are developing idiomatic rhetorics – alingua franca – to explore the technicaland expressive properties of the new ``languagemachines'' and their hypertextual environments.The role of improvisation – and itscross-disciplinary protocols – provides afurther focus in the discussion of computingpractice and performance.

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