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)
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
A digital media theorist leading practice-based research projects in digital dance and motion-captured performance
Strutt’s work straddles the fields of Screen Studies and Creative Economy, with some productive cross-pollination between the two.
Having studied his UG, Masters, and PhD all within MCCS at Goldsmiths, he now convenes both undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the department in film, digital, virtual and immersive media.
Alongside his own theory research with 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 tfor remote collaboration, sustainability, and accessibility in metaverse-type performance practices.
Dan has a strong track record of Creative Economy research with CREATe, Creativeworks London, and the Creative Economy Programme, with a forthcoming co-authored book ‘Fashion as Creative Economy’ (Polity).
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
Strutt, Daniel; McRobbie, Angela and Bandinelli, Carolina. 2022. Fashion as Creative Economy: Micro-Enterprises in London, Berlin and Milan. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 9781509553853
Strutt, Daniel. 2019. The Digital Image and Reality: Affect, Metaphysics and Post-Cinema. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. ISBN 9789462987135
Book Section
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
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
Strutt, Daniel; Schlegel, Andreas; Coghlan, Neal; Debaig, Clemence and Peng, Youhong ‘Friendred’
Article
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
Strutt, Daniel; Schlegel, Andreas; Coghlan, Neal; Debaig, Clemence and Peng, Youhong ‘Friendred’
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
Conference or Workshop Item
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
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.
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.
Debaig, Clemence; Strutt, Daniel; Peng, Youhong (Friendred)
Thesis
Strutt, Daniel. 2012. The Difference the Digital Makes: The Affective Synthesis of Reality by Digital Screen Media. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London