This book argues that embodiment is per-formed, relational, and emergent, and that interactive art stages our incipient actions so as suspend, amplify, and intervene in that very performance. It follows with many in-depth case studies of contemporary works which interrupt embodiment, and invite an experience and practice of how we inter-act and relate with the world. Here bodies, matter, and their matters, are implicated as always unfolding and enfolded to make what is. At stake is the rehearsal of that making, the ways we perform our bodies, media, concepts, and materials.

Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance is an Arts Future Book by Nathaniel Stern, coming mid-2012 from Gylphi Limited.