Hugo Liu & Glorianna Davenport (2005). Self-reflexive performance: dancing with the computed audience of culture. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 1(3), 237–247, Intellect Ltd.
Liu, H., & Davenport, G. (2005). Self-reflexive performance: dancing with the computed audience of culture. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1(3), 237–247.
@article{liu2005selfreflexive,
author = {Hugo Liu and Glorianna Davenport},
title = {Self-reflexive performance: dancing with the computed audience of culture},
journal = {International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media},
volume = {1},
number = {3},
pages = {237--247},
publisher = {Intellect Ltd},
doi = {10.1386/padm.1.3.237/1},
url = {https://starheartsong.com/papers/pdf/IJPADM2005-IdentityMirror.pdf},
year = {2005}
}Identity Mirror overlays a tracked silhouette with a moving field of cultural descriptors drawn from a person's favorite books, music, films, foods, sports, television, and subcultures. Distance changes descriptive granularity; deliberate and abrupt motion change which tenuous associations remain visible. The mirror draws on Taste Fabric's network of 12,000 cultural symbols, while daily news can bias which facets become salient. The paper frames reflection as a negotiation among performer, culture-as-audience, and the self as meta-audience, with “facets,” “shadows,” and co-performance as ways to explore contextual identity. It is a design and performance-theory paper, not a controlled evaluation. Several off-stage histories and connected performances remain proposals, and every reflection inherits Taste Fabric's coverage and inference limits.