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Digital dance: (dis)entangling human and technology
Gündüz, Z.
Publication date 2012
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Gündüz, Z. (2012). Digital dance: (dis)entangling human and technology. Rozenberg Publishers.
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Acknowledgements
! The journey for this PhD project started during a meeting with my supervisor José van Dijck who, reading my MA thesis on digital dance, said “I see a book coming out of this. Would you consider to do a PhD?.” It is first of all her that I would like to thank for her interest in this project and her confidence in my capability to complete this thesis even when I was doubting it myself. I would also like to thank my co-promotor Maaike Bleeker whose knowledge and critical eye have enabled my thoughts and writing to stay ‘in movement’ throughout my journey.
! Writing a PhD is one thing, to be able to find the financial opportunity to write it is another. I am grateful to the Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for supporting this project. Financial issues need to be operationalized according to certain rules and regulations; a big thank you goes to Benjamin Rous, Gea Lindeboom, Marten Hidma, Hotze Mulder, and Jobien Kuiper for helping me with these matters. I would also like to thank Eloe Kingma, the managing director of ASCA, for her readiness to help me with any problems or questions.
! This PhD would not have been completed without the cooperation of the makers, dancers, and media artists of my case studies. Thank you Mark Coniglio, Dawn Stoppiello, Lucia Wong, Robert Clark, Daniel Suominen, Johanna Levy, Frieder Weiss, Gideon
Obarzanek, Kirstie Ayre, Klaus Obermaier, Rob Tannion, and Desireé Kongerød. ! An important contribution for the shaping of this thesis was the insights I gained during my six-months stay in the UK, at the University of Chichester. I warmly thank Sarah Rubidge, Andrea Davidson, Neil Bryant, Chris Jannides, Tamar Daly, Cat Dinopoulou, and the Murray family. I would also like to thank Johannes Birringer, Gretchen Schiller, Susan Kozel, Kirk Woolford and Scott delaHunta for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas. ! Back in the Netherlands, I am grateful to have my colleagues at Imagined Futures research group with who we not only imagined the completion of our PhD projects but also shared valuable encounters, not to mention friendship. Special thanks to Pepita
Hesselberth, Laura Schuster, Jennifer Steetskamp, Martine Huvenne, Maria Poulaki, and Tina Bastajian. I would also like to thank Carolyn Birdsall and Toni Mazel for their support and kind words when I needed them.
! Besides Imagined Futures, I have had the luxury of being part of another research group at the University of Utrecht, department of Theater Studies. Not only have I profited tremendously from our discussions, I have also found encouragement to move on. Thank
you Jeroen Fabius, Liesbeth Groot-Nibbelink, Nirav Christophe, Ruben de Roo, Konstantina Georgelou, Marijn de Langen, and Joao de Silva.
! I cannot find the right words to express my gratitude to Rachel O’Reilly, my editor (and even if i did Rachel would have edited them.) Thank you, Rachel, editor and friend, for your interest in this project, our discussions, your dedication and hard work. A very warm thank you goes to Selçuk Balamir for the wonderful design and lay-out and Thijs Witty for the accurate translation of my summary into Dutch.
! If finding the right words to thank Rachel is difficult, finding enough space in this acknowledgement to thank my friends in the appropriate words is impossible. Therefore,I keep it short. Special thanks to: Konstantina Georgelou, Maria Poulaki, Valeriya
Krasovskaya, Eva Fotiadi, Özge Özdemir, Güçlü Bigay, Umut Konuş, Burcu Onar, Taylan Toygarlar, Elif Deniz-Yılmaz Delzenne, Ekmel Ertan, Müge and Cengiz Ergecen, Isabella Kronberger, Mickey Smid, Joana Paes, Kavita Ziemann, Yurii Khomski, Laura Schuster, Jennifer Steetskamp, Dora Achourioti, and Duncan Harkness. I would also like to express my gratitude to the Sipahi family for their support and attention and Marjan Delzenne for reminding me of my capacities.
! Finally, I would like to thank my parents, Şükrü and Fahriye, my sister Ayşegül for their unconditional love and confidence in me. How lucky I am to have you.
