@article{ART003213759},
author={HAN EUI JUNG},
title={The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance},
journal={Journal of History of Modern Art},
issn={1598-7728},
year={2025},
number={57},
pages={7-27}
TY - JOUR
AU - HAN EUI JUNG
TI - The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance
JO - Journal of History of Modern Art
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 57
PB - 현대미술사학회
SP - 7
EP - 27
SN - 1598-7728
AB - This paper explores how Merce Cunningham’s choreographic principles, founded on chance and autonomy, as well as his active engagement with technology, have laid both the aesthetic and technical foundations for today’s digital performance. Cunningham deconstructed the grammar of traditional dance centered on emotional expression and narrative, and made the arrangement of movement nondeterministic and open with the principles of chance and autonomy. By emptying out semantic structures and habitual chains of movement, the dancer’s body produces movement divorced from conscious intention, constituting an aesthetic experience in its own right. His collaborations with artists from other fields such as music and visual art emphasized the independence of each element, thereby allowing time and space on stage to unfold in nonlinear and multilayered ways. His experimental use of video cameras and the employment of digital software in choreographic processes opened up new sensory realms based on virtual bodies and movements. By confronting bodies and movements completely different from those we consider human, we witness the power of interacting with them emerge on stage.
KW - Merce Cunningham;John Cage;chance;autonomy;digital technology;virtual body;digital performance
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HAN EUI JUNG. (2025). The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance. Journal of History of Modern Art, 57, 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. 2025, "The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance", Journal of History of Modern Art, no.57, pp.7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG "The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance" Journal of History of Modern Art 57 pp.7-27 (2025) : 7.
HAN EUI JUNG. The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance. 2025; 57 : 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. "The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance" Journal of History of Modern Art no.57(2025) : 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance. Journal of History of Modern Art, 57, 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance. Journal of History of Modern Art. 2025; 57 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance. 2025; 57 : 7-27.
HAN EUI JUNG. "The Aesthetic of Chance and Autonomy : From Merce Cunningham to Digital Performance" Journal of History of Modern Art no.57(2025) : 7-27.
