Index

Contents

INTRODUCING
Performativity, performance studies and digital cultures
Martina Leeker, Imanuel Schipper and Timon Beyes | 9

HISTORICIZING
Performing (the) digital. Positions of critique in digital cultures
Martina Leeker | 21

ANNOTATING
Making digital choreographic objects interrelate: A focus on
coding practices
Scott deLahunta and Florian Jenett | 63

AFFECTING
Speculation about 1:0. On the productive difference of the interval
Marie-Luise Angerer | 83

TRADING
The noisy motions of instruments: The performative space of
digital finance
Ann-Christina Lange | 101

ENCRYPTING
Performing encryption
Susan Kozel | 117

PROTESTING
Mobile phone signals and protest crowds: Performing an unstable
post-media constellation
Oliver Leistert | 137 

MAPPING
Mapping invisibility: Surveillance art and the potential of
performative cartography
Sigrid Merx | 157

TAGGING
The big urban game, re-play and full city tags: Art game
conceptions in activism and performance
Margarete Jahrmann | 171

CO-PRODUCING
From flâneur to co-creator: The performative spectator
Imanuel Schipper | 191

INSTITUTING
Performing institutions: A catalogue of performative practices
Melanie Mohren and Bernhard Herbordt | 213

ORGANIZING
‘The machine could swallow everything.’ Satin Island and
performing organization
Timon Beyes | 229

CRASHING
Performing the economy, digital media and crisis. A critique of
Michel Callon
Jens Schröter | 247

DEMOCRATIZING
Performance and democratizing digitality: StudioLab as critical
design pedagogy
Jon McKenzie | 279

Notes on contributors | 297