Interactive Telepresence and Telematics: Dancing with the Streaming Digital Body Image

Abstract

This paper investigates the interactive relationships between physical and digital bodies in a telematic performance and performative installation arrangement, based on both theoretical and practical research. During the development and presentation of a practice-based project, performers’ and spectators’ contribution to the creative process and the fusion of a conscious with an illusionary state were observed and analysed using heuristic research methodology. This research includes an improvement of methods that supports embodiment and communication with and through the live transmitted digital body image, where time, space and gravity are central themes.