Readings

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Aronson, Arnold. American Avant-Garde Theater: A History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000.

Berghaus, Günter. Avant-garde Performance: Live Events and Electronic Technologies. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Birringer, Johannes H. Media & Performance along the Border. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1998.

Kostelanetz, Richard. Scenarios: Scripts to Perform. Brooklyn, NY: Assembling, 1980.

McNamara, Brooks, and Jill Dolan. The Drama Review: Thirty Years of Commentary on the

Avant-garde. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research, 1986.

Montfort, Nick, and Noah Wardrip-Fruin. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, Mass: MIT, 2003.

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: From Late-Modernism to Postmodernism
Page numbers: pgs. 50-60 [excerpt]
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: The New Media Reader
Title of Article/Chapter: “New Media from Borges to HTML”
Page numbers: pgs. 13-25.
Publication date: 2003
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-262-23227-2, MIT press

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Publication title: american avant-garde theater: a history
Title of Article/Chapter: The end of the avant-garde
Page numbers: pgs. 192-204
Publication date: 2000
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-24139-I, Routledge

[talks about the wooster group and technology. Also good foreshadowing of what's to come in theater.]

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: Video and Multi-media Performance
Page numbers: pg. 179-191
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

[chapter intro and selections]

Publication title: The New Media Reader
Title of Article/Chapter: “The Fantasy Beyond Control”
Page numbers: pgs. 643-647.
Publication date: 2003
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-262-23227-2, MIT press

[link between performance art and performance in video art Lyn Hershman]

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: Performances in Cyberspace
Page numbers: pg. 236-258
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: Media and Performance Along the Border
Title of Article/Chapter: “Dance Screens”
Page numbers: pgs. 59-72. [excerpt]
Publication date: 1998
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-8018-5851-8, John Hopkins University Press

[discusses anderson stelarc and performance theory]

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Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: figure “BOX 1.3 SOME KEY FEATURES OF AVANT-GARDE ART”
Page numbers: pgs. 20-21
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: american avant-garde theater: a history
Title of Article/Chapter: Theories and foundations
Page numbers: pgs. 26-41
Publication date: 2000
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-24139-I, Routledge

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: Happening and Fluxus
Page numbers: pgs. 120-121
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: Happening and Fluxus
Page numbers: pgs. 79-92 & 96-102
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: The New Media Reader
Title of Article/Chapter: “'Happenings' in the New York Scene”
Page numbers: pgs. 83-88.
Publication date: 2003
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-262-23227-2. MIT press

Publication title:The Drama Review: Thirty Years of Commentary on the Avant-Garde
Title of Article/Chapter: “An Interview with John Cage”
Page numbers: pgs. 79-99.
Publication date: 1986
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-8357-1746-1. UMI Research Press.

Publication title: Avant-garde performance; live events and electronic technologies
Title of Article/Chapter: Body Art, Ritualism and Neo-Shamanism
Page numbers: pg. 138
Publication date: 2005
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN:13: 978 1-4039-4644-7, Palgrave Macmillan

Publication title: american avant-garde theater: a history
Title of Article/Chapter: Performance Art
Page numbers: pgs. 157-180
Publication date: 2000
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-415-24139-I, Routledge

[good write up of performance art, body art, conceptual performance]

Publication title:The Drama Review: Thirty Years of Commentary on the Avant-Garde
Title of Article/Chapter: “Theater Anthropology”
Page numbers: pgs. 275-304.
Publication date: 1986
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-8357-1746-1. UMI Research Press.

• Selections from Scenarios

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “From the Case for the Burial of Ancestors “ by Paul Zelevansky
Page numbers: pgs. 28-35
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “12 Piano Compositions for Nam June Paik” by George Maciunas
Page numbers: pg.76
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Microdramas” by Wolfgang Bauer
Page numbers: pgs. 77-87
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “#1” & “#2” by Mary Lucier
Page numbers: pgs. 88-89
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Musica da Camera: for orchestra of photographers” by Peter Frank
Page numbers: pg.121-123
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Experiment in Simultaneous Two-way Communication” by Peter H. Barnett
Page numbers: pgs. 124-125
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “WAVE SEC. 1-8” by Allan Bealy
Page numbers: pgs. 192-193
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Coil Supreme” by Kenneth Koch
Page numbers: pgs. 216
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Hi Red Center” by Meguro-ku
Page numbers: pgs. 230-233
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Room/Raum” by Linda Mussman
Page numbers: pgs. 234-248
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Spatial Poem No. 7” by Mieko Shiomi
Page numbers: pgs. 298
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Nearly Ten Billion Walls” by Carl D. Clark
Page numbers: pgs. 413-416
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Phantom Space/Exhaustion Triad” by David Morice
Page numbers: pgs. 431-435
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Shuffling piece, 1960” by Alison Knowles
Page numbers: pgs. 503
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Proposal for an Event (2)” by Lee Baxandall
Page numbers: pgs. 557
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Art Ideas for the Year 4000 #1” by Donald Burgy
Page numbers: pgs. 594
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Spanish Card Piece for Objects” by George Brecht
Page numbers: pgs. 648
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press

Publication title: Scenarios: Scripts to Perform
Title of Article/Chapter: “Sound and Movement Called Lee's Piece” by Living Theater
Page numbers: pgs. 686-687
Publication date: 1980
Publisher and/or ISBN/ISSN: 0-915066-42-7, Assembling Press