- Virtual relationships: the dancer and the avatar Strutt, Daniel and Cisneros, Rosa. 2021. Virtual relationships: the dancer and the avatar. Theatre and Performance Design, 7(1-2), pp. 61-81. ISSN 2332-2551
- Mystical-type experience at the virtual reality interface: Technics, aesthetics, and theology in the search for cosmic connection Strutt, Daniel. 2020. Mystical-type experience at the virtual reality interface: Technics, aesthetics, and theology in the search for cosmic connection. Iluminace, 32(2), pp. 71-95. ISSN 0862-397X
Dr Dan Strutt
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
daniel.strutt (@gold.ac.uk)
Links
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
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 some 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. Since 2024 he also convenes the MA Film and Screen Studies.
Aligned with the theory research of his 2019 book ‘The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Post Cinema, and Metaphysics’ (AUP), Strutt engages in practice-based research with digital 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.
Dan also has a 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.
Publications and research outputs
Book
- Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan Strutt, Daniel; 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. 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. 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; Schlegel, Andreas; Coghlan, Neal; Debaig, Clemence and Peng, Youhong ‘Friendred’
Article
- An Alien Phenomenology in Dance: Virtual Telematic Performances as Embodied Philosophy Strutt, Daniel. 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. 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’
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; 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. 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.
- Dancing into the Metaverse - a digital dance showcase Strutt, Daniel; Debaig, Clemence; Coghlan, Neal and Clyne, Keir. 2021. Dancing into the Metaverse - a digital dance showcase. In: "Dancing into the Metaverse - a digital dance showcase", Sonics Immersive Media Labs (SIML), Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, 12 - 13 November 2021.
- Virtual Touch, Virtually Dancing - Goldsmiths Mocap Streamer Showcase Performance Debaig, Clemence; Strutt, Daniel; Peng, Youhong (Friendred)
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