Philip Auslander
· ProfessorGeorgia Institute of Technology · Literature, Media, and Communication
Active 1980–2023
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About
Philip Auslander is a professor at the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech whose primary research interest lies in performance, particularly as it relates to art, music, media, and technology. He has explored a wide range of aesthetic and cultural performances including theatre, film acting, performance art, music, stand-up comedy, robotic performance, and courtroom procedures. Auslander is the author of ten books and has edited or co-edited two collections. His recent publications include Women Rock! Portraits in Popular Music (2023), a richly illustrated trade book profiling over 50 women musicians, and the third edition of Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (2023). Other notable works include In Concert: Performing Musical Persona (2021), Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation (2018), and Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006). In addition to his scholarly work on performance, Auslander has contributed art criticism to ArtForum and other publications, and has written catalogue essays for museums and galleries across Europe and the United States. He serves as the editor of The Art Section: An Online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary. Beyond academia, Auslander is also a working screen actor with credits listed on the Internet Movie Database. He wrote, produced, and acted in the short film "Dr. Blues," which premiered at the 2019 Peachtree Village International Film Festival in…
Research topics
- Art
- Humanities
- Aesthetics
- Computer Science
- Sociology
- Programming language
- Literature
- Philosophy
- Visual arts
- Art history
Selected publications
2022 · 60 citations
1st authorCorrespondingLiveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture addresses what may be the single most important question facing all kinds of performance today. What is the status of live performance in a culture dominated by mass media and digital technologies? Since its first appearance, Philip Auslander’s groundbreaking book has helped to reconfigure a new area of study. Looking at specific instances of live performance such as theatre, music, sport, and courtroom testimony, Liveness offers penetrating insights…
University of Michigan Press eBooks · 2018-01-01 · 35 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingMost people agree that witnessing a live performance is not the same as seeing it on screen; however, most of the performances we experience are in recorded forms. Some aver that the recorded form of a performance necessarily distorts it or betrays it, focusing on the relationship between the original event and its recorded versions. By contrast, Reactivations focuses on how the audience experiences the performance, as opposed to its documentation. How does a spectator access and experience a pe…
2020 · 33 citations
1st authorCorrespondingThe conventional way of understanding what musicians do as performers is to treat them as producers of sound; some even argue that it is unnecessary to see musicians in performance as long as one can hear them. But musical performance, counters Philip Auslander, is also a social interaction between musicians and their audiences, appealing as much to the eye as to the ear. In Concert: Performing Musical Persona he addresses not only the visual means by which musicians engage their audiences…
Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation
2018-05-01 · 13 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingFraming Personae in Music Videos
2019-01-01 · 11 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 500 shared
Tracy C. Davis
Northwestern University
- 500 shared
Kim Marra
University of Iowa
- 400 shared
Harry J. Elam
- 400 shared
Laurence Senelick
Tufts University
- 400 shared
Gary M. Williams
- 300 shared
Russ Vince
- 200 shared
Jason Garrett
Stanford University
- 200 shared
Ellen Hause
Georgia Institute of Technology
Education
- 1984
Ph.D., Theater and Film
Cornell University
Awards & honors
- Callaway Prize for the Best Book in Theatre or Drama for Liv…
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