Dr Dan Strutt

Staff details

Position

Reader

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

daniel.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)

Links

Website
mocapstreamer.live

Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups

Digital Culture Unit

A media theorist leading practice-based research in digital motion-captured dance performance in shared virtual space

Strutt’s work straddles the fields of Screen Studies and Creative Economy, with productive cross-pollination between the two. Having studied his UG, MA, and PhD at Goldsmiths, he convenes modules in film, digital, immersive, and generative media. He is Head of Subject for Media Arts and Screen in the School of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies

Aligned with the theoretical basis of his 2019 book ‘The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Post Cinema, and Metaphysics’ (AUP), Strutt conducts practice-based research with visual artists, creative technologists, and dancers. Since 2020 he has been P.I. on AHRC-funded projects in digital dance; using motion capture streaming for remote collaboration, sustainability, and accessibility in metaverse-type performance practices.

He has a strong track record of Creative Economy research with CREATe, Creativeworks London, and the Creative Economy Programme, and through the co-authored book ‘Fashion as Creative Economy’ (Polity, 2023).

Research interests

Strutt is actively researching in areas of motion-captured performance practice, mocap streaming and telematic performance, virtual embodiment, post-cinema, and immersive media. He also addresses issues around creative enterprise and the creative economy in dance and fashion fields.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo ; McRobbie, Angela ; and Bandinelli, Carolina. 2022. Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9781509553853
The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema Strutt, Daniel . 2019. The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789462987135

Book Section

Dancing into the metaverse: Creating a framework for ethical and ecological telematic dance practice and performance Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo . 2024. Dancing into the metaverse: Creating a framework for ethical and ecological telematic dance practice and performance. In: Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas, eds. Adaptation and resilience in the performing arts: The pandemic and beyond. 3 Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 42-64. ISBN 9781526172402
Motion capture and the digital dance aesthetic: Using inertial sensor motion tracking for devising and producing contemporary dance performance Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo . 2022. Motion capture and the digital dance aesthetic: Using inertial sensor motion tracking for devising and producing contemporary dance performance. In: Carla Fernandes; Vito Evola and Cláudia Ribeiro, eds. Dance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 131-146. ISBN 9780367617455
New Telematic Technology for the Remote Creation and Performance of Choreographic Work Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo ; Schlegel, Andreas; Coghlan, Neal; Debaig, Clemence; and Peng, Youhong (Friendred) . 2022. New Telematic Technology for the Remote Creation and Performance of Choreographic Work. In: Joanna Zylinska, ed. The Future of Media. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 197-222. ISBN 9781913380144

Article

An Alien Phenomenology in Dance: Virtual Telematic Performances as Embodied Philosophy Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo . 2025. An Alien Phenomenology in Dance: Virtual Telematic Performances as Embodied Philosophy. Documenta, 42(1), pp. 129-162. ISSN 0771-8640
A Simple Tool for Remote Real-Time Dance Interaction in Virtual Spaces, Or “Dancing in the Metaverse” Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo . 2022. A Simple Tool for Remote Real-Time Dance Interaction in Virtual Spaces, Or “Dancing in the Metaverse”. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, 25, ISSN 2409-7411
New Telematic Technologies for Remote Creation, Rehearsal and Performance of Choreographic Work Strutt, Daniel ; Schlegel, Andreas; Coghlan, Neal; Debaig, Clemence; and Peng, Youhong (Friendred) . 2021. New Telematic Technologies for Remote Creation, Rehearsal and Performance of Choreographic Work. Journal of Embodied Research, 4(2), 4 (14:57). ISSN 2513-8421

Conference or Workshop Item

Digital Dance Studio VR (DDS-VR): An innovative user-focused immersive software application for digital choreographic composition, planning, teaching, learning, and rehearsal Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo ; Whitley, Alexander; and Kirchhoff, Sönke. 2023. 'Digital Dance Studio VR (DDS-VR): An innovative user-focused immersive software application for digital choreographic composition, planning, teaching, learning, and rehearsal'. In: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference Immersive Pavilion (SIGGRAPH ’23 Immersive Pavilion). Los Angeles, CA, United States 6 - 10 August 2023.

Performance

Global Dance Collaboration in the Metaverse Strutt, Daniel ORCID logo . 2022. Global Dance Collaboration in the Metaverse. In: "Being Human Festival 2022", Sonics Immersive Media Labs (SIML) Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, 12 November 2022.
Virtual Touch, Virtually Dancing - Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer Showcase Performance Debaig, Clemence; Strutt, Daniel ; Peng, Youhong (Friendred) ; and Coghlan, Neal. 2021. Virtual Touch, Virtually Dancing - Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer Showcase Performance. In: "Virtual Touch, Virtually Dancing - Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer Showcase Performance", Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, 7 May 2021.

Thesis

The Difference the Digital Makes: The Affective Synthesis of Reality by Digital Screen Media Strutt, Daniel . 2012. The Difference the Digital Makes: The Affective Synthesis of Reality by Digital Screen Media. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London