Abstract
The human body as a medium intersects with all of communications media. The work of Marshall McLuhan is explored throughout this paper to consider the impact of mediatized environments on the human body, sensory perception, and ultimately human interactions with each other. Where Innis believed that communications technology was central to the technological revolution because of its impact on social and cultural institutions, McLuhan considered the human body as the site of the senses. I refer to experts in kinesis, somatic, transcendence, and bodily presence as being dancers. When the body is not present de-personalization or disembodiment occurs. The ecology of learning and embodying creative human movement is responsive to communicative innovations. This paper explores how bodily presence, as it relates to creative human movement, functions as a sophisticated and generative medium within mediatized environments.
Digital Media
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