Performance Art #2.3

    Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices together including: collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming and performance, to form an altogether new field. He's best known for his visually stunning collages housed in custom frames, Newsomes' work is deeply invested in how images used in media and popular culture communicate distorted notions of power. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between intersectionality, social practice and abstraction. Newsome's works opposes cultural essentialisms. They lead us into a realm of uncertainty, in which the symbols presented transform, but are nonetheless made tangible

 In one of his recent performance arrangements, Newsmen used a hacked Nintento Wii controller to mix sounds in real-time in conjunction with a chorus of live performers (Shade Compositions); in Five, he used motion-tracking software to produce drawings of vogueing dancers.

    Nam Juin Paik, Laurie Anderson, and Rashaad Newsmen are both performance artists and they use technology in order to document their work; for those who actively incorporate technology into their performance practice.