CyberPerformanCity
an experimental methodological resource for creative processes in digital media art, performing arts, and urban space
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https://doi.org/10.34629/rcdmt.vol.3.n.1.pp70-101Keywords:
Cyberperformance, Digital media art, Feminist media art, Urban space, Artistic researchAbstract
This article presents the development of CyberPerformanCity, an experimental generative methodology designed to support creative processes that bring together digital media art, performance arts, and urban space. This method may prove particularly valuable for artists interested in designing and implementing their own methodologies within the context of artistic practice. CyberPerformanCity emerged from the need to interconnect three creative domains—cyberspace, cyberperformance, and public space – within digital media art projects. Its development is linked to the European projects CyPeT (2022–2023) and the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action Writing Urban Places: New Narratives of the European City (2020–2023). The article outlines the conceptual and methodological foundations of CyberPerformanCity, as well as its practical application. It also discusses the creative processes behind two feminist cyberperformative artefacts of my own authorship, developed respectively in Portugal and Italy, which led to the conception of this methodology: Make me up! (2021) and Aretusa Vox (2023).
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