The Digital Double

According to Dixon (2007: 1) during the last decade of the twentieth century, computer technologies played a dynamic and increasingly important role in live theater, dance, and performance. Therefore, we know the digital performance have been regarded trend. When I want combine animation with the fashion show, I thought how to increase the show and rise the perform of idea of fashion designer. Fashion show actually could be presented variety. Not only models walk in the fashion show, but the fashion also use different elements of performance. Such as the Alexander McQueen has presented checkerboard stage and models look like some chessman in 2005. Consequently, the fashion show have been changed by current designer. The fashion show have closed some kind of performance that idea is not only express the clothes.

 In order to increaseing the traditional performance, some designer start to use computer technologies. Some performance use robots, digital dancing, such as Chico MacMurtrie, The Ancestral Path Through The Amorphic Landscape 2000 or Riverbed, Hand-drawn Spaces, 1997

The digital double among in many digital performance . The digital double resemble mirror that audiences will see the performer and digital character both on stage. Rokeby ( 1999, cited in Dixon 2007: 245) states in many works the idea of the mirror is explicitly invoked. the clearest example are interactive video installations where the spectator's image or silhouette become an active force in a computer- generated context. Therefore, the effect of mirror certainly can give some spirits or power to the performance. Dixon (2007: 241) researches the notion of the double has been a particularly potent concept in performance since the publication of Antonin Artaud's The Theater and Its Double in 1938,  the metaphor has become concrete and actuated in the theroy and practice of digital performance. In addition, due to computer technology dramatically increase, digital performance have developed quite variety. Actually, the digital double has frequently seen in the current performance.

pic from http://stylecrave.com/2009-02-20/digital-dance-echo-chambered-in-italy/



In my project, I have using the conception of mirror, but most fashion show have not used this idea. There is a problem how to make audience to balance between fashion show and preformance. After all, showing the clothes is purpose of the fashion show, I quit persist in this opinion.

reference

Dixon,S., 2007. Digital performance  a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation