Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity

Susan Broadhurst is Professor of Performance and Technology within the School of Arts at Brunel University, West London, UK. She is the author of Liminal Acts: A Critical Overview of Contemporary Performance and Theory (1999) and Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology (2007), co- editor of Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity (2006) and Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance and of the online journal Body, Space and Technology. Susan is currently working on a series of collaborative practice-based research projects entitled 'Intelligence, Interaction, Reaction and Performance', which involve introducing various interactive digital technologies into live performance.

Dr. Josephine Machon is Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary Performance Practice at Middlesex University, London, UK. She is the author of Immersive Theatres - intimacy and immediacy in contemporary performance (2013) and (Syn)aesthetics: Redefining Visceral Performance (2009, 2011). Josephine is also joint editor of the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Performance and Technology and the co-editor of Performance and Technology (2006), Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies (2010) and Identity, Performance and Technology (2012).