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Cilt 7, Sayı 33  2019/2  (ISSN: 2148-0451, E-ISSN: )
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1551360642 THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE ART

Technology has developed continuously throughout the history of mankind and has renewed itself. From primitive human beings to this day, human beings have been in constant search to make life more livable , carried out large discoveries in certain periods and continued the Adventure of his evolution. Especially with the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, important developments in science and technology have been experienced in social life and has affected life in all aspects. These include the expansion of rights and freedoms, the invention of Steam Machines and locomotives, the fragmentation of the atom, the establishment of new factories and the creation of a consumer society, the development of new agricultural instruments, the discovery of new communication systems such as telephone and Telegraph. The concept of technology, a projection of such a large scale, influenced art and artists, and became a source of help in the emergence of new forms of art . at the beginning of the 20thcentury, these developments are behind the emergence and adoption of many nested currents in the same time period. Performance art is one of the radical forms of Art where the human body is transformed into material where disciplines such as painting,sculpture, dance, theatre music and Lıterature e.t.c are used together. Performance-like activities of futurists, Dadierers and Surrealists have a great share in their development. The art of performing has entered into a natural interaction with technology while experiencing its own evolution. The artist was influenced by every new technological development that took place as part of society. He/she used these technologies in his daily life and studied them like everyone else. This was the most important indicator of the interaction between art and technology. More and more artists started to use technological equipment or media elements in their performances. Technology has a wide variety of materials in performance art. Laser, projection, sound, light, computer, led, camera, photography, internet, various mechanics and robots have entered in the interest field of performance artists. Today, this interaction is experiencing the golden age with the expansion of digital technologies.
Keywords: painting, performance, technology