In the free companion chapter to Interactive art and Embodiment, offered in partnership with Networked Book at Turbulence.org (or downloadable here), Stern offers a semi-autobiographical account of his own research trajectory, and invites comment, critique, and contributions of new work. This creates a participatory stage for rehearsing the performance of scholarship. At the exhibitions, audiences encounter the concepts and materials addressed in the book. For example, in Stern’s ‘Body Language’ series, which premiered in full at the Wits Art Museum in Johannesburg in June 2013, participants use their full bodies to interact with digitized sounds, projected animations, texts, drawings, and videos, which shift and change with their movements. They explore, play with, experience, and practice how we make bodies and meaning.
See “In Production” via the Networked Book at Turbulence.org