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A datalogical reading of online performance (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2021). A datalogical reading of online performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 69-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2021.2018222

This article offers a datalogical reading of online performance. In constructing the framework for this new mode of analysing online, computationally centred performance practice, it draws on discussions of data and the datalogical in Blackman (2019)... Read More about A datalogical reading of online performance.

Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City (2021)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2021). Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City. In L. Jarvis, & K. Savage (Eds.), Avatars, activism and postdigital performance : precarious intermedial identities (161-186). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350159341.ch-7

This chapter opens up processes of ‘place-mixing’ in wild urban landscapes. Place-mixing is a digital mixing practice arising from encounters with the city, which pays particular attention to wild forces, feelings and happenings in play. Framed throu... Read More about Postdigital place-mixing in the Wild City.

Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age (2020)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2020). Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 16(2), 134-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2020.1761680

This article addresses two recent performances by Javaad Alipoor and Kirsty Housley - Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran (2019) and The Believers are but Brothers (2017). It argues that they represent a fresh, stripped back and interrog... Read More about Rich kids : a history of shopping malls in Tehran and the believers are but brothers - digital lack and excess in a postdigital age.

Symbiotic synergies : adaptive framework for polydisciplinary collaboration in performance practice (2019)
Thesis
Moraitis, E. (in press). Symbiotic synergies : adaptive framework for polydisciplinary collaboration in performance practice. (Thesis). University of Salford

What are the implications of collaboration between practitioners of distinct creative disciplines, and what approaches can enhance such engagements? This inquiry is investigated through Practice Research with project-based and iterative methodology a... Read More about Symbiotic synergies : adaptive framework for polydisciplinary collaboration in performance practice.

Time in intermedial theatre (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2019). Time in intermedial theatre. In M. Crossley (Ed.), Intermedial Theatre: Principles and Practice (90-115). Red Globe Press (Macmillan International Higher Education)

The performer in intermedial theatre (2019)
Book Chapter
Scott, J., & Barton, B. (2019). The performer in intermedial theatre. In M. Crossley (Ed.), Intermedial Theatre: Principles and Practice (62-89). Red Globe Press (Macmillan International Higher Education)

Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance (2017)
Book Chapter
constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance. In P. Hansen, & B. Bläsing (Eds.), Performing the Remembered Present : The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music. Bloomsbury, Methuen Drama

This chapter considers our collaborative Practice-as-Research in performance as a mode of memory-making and specifically as a way of activating and exploring the subjective experience of déjà vu associated with temporal lobe epilepsy. Utilising const... Read More about Already seen, already heard, already visited : constructing the experience of déjà states within live intermedial performance.

virtual : Performance and digital (2017)
Book Chapter
Scott, J. (2018). virtual : Performance and digital. In E. Bryon (Ed.), Performing Interdisciplinarity : Working Across Disciplinary Boundaries Through an Active Aesthetic (59-73). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315558639-5

As my fingers hover above the laptop keyboard, I am aware of a number of things – the people watching my actions, the choice I have to make and what that will do to this moment we are experiencing, the technical requirements of interacting with a dig... Read More about virtual : Performance and digital.

Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’ (2017)
Journal Article
Sykes, R., Keeble, A., Cordle, D., Scott, J., De Cristofaro, D., KIng, D., …Srivastava, N. (2017). Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’. Open Library of Humanities, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.16995/olh.153

In April 2016, The Guardian published ‘Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet forever’ by the celebrated academic and nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Reflecting on the article’s importance as a critical experiment and, perhaps,... Read More about Contemporary Studies Network Roundtable : Responding to Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Generation Anthropocene’.

Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health (2017)
Book Chapter
McLaughlin, D., & Scott, J. (2017). Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health. In V. Baxter, & K. Low (Eds.), Applied Theatre : Performing Health and Wellbeing. Bloomsbury

This snapshot introduces an intermedial Practice as Research (PaR) project, exploring the intersections between live media practice, disability and health. As part of this collaborative work, we are seeking to discover new ways of formulating and ex... Read More about Generating a medical dramaturgy : live intersections between intermediality and health.

Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action (2016)
Book
Scott, J. (2016). Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-60234-3

In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality. The book offers a much-needed example of fully developed... Read More about Intermedial praxis and Practice as Research : 'Doing-thinking' in action.

'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, J. (2016). 'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 21(3), 332-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2016.1191337

This article addresses live intermediality as a tool for creative learning in the context of workshops carried out with young people in the town of Terezin, in the Czech Republic, site of the Nazi concentration camp, Theresienstadt. Live intermediali... Read More about 'Affective encounters' : live intermedial spaces in sites of trauma.

Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, November). Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice. Presented at Women in Sound/Women on Sound symposium, Lancaster University

This presentation arises from an on-going project, exploring the activation of popular music from Salford, through a series of live intermedial events. Live intermedial practice involves the real time mixing of sound, image, object and text and can m... Read More about Sampling Salford : ‘musical quotation’ and the female voice.

Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2015, September). Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music. Presented at Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA) Annual Conference, University of Worcester

In response to the working group call this year, I am sharing developments in a current strand of research, aspects of which were presented as part of the interim event in April. Here, I explored music as a ‘memorative sign’ (Rousseau in Boym 2001: 4... Read More about Memorative signs and material constituents : live media practice and the activation of popular music.