New Directions in Mobile Media and Performance

This book explores the new and varied artistic and performative projects that have developed since the onset of the smart phone. The author examines how mobile devices are used in performative and video artworks for participatory, or interactive, visual works and performances. She discusses the key and compelling works within digital art and performance that use the mobile media tools, as well as fast developing wearable technology, to create a new medium for expression. The focus is on the new affordances that have been made through the exponential technological development of mobile technologies, and the changing landscape of art and performance practices in response to this development.