Histories of Performance Documentation- Front Cover -- Histories of Performance Documentation -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: practical histories: how we do things with performance -- Notes -- Works cited -- PART I: Interviews -- Chapter 1: Museum of Modern Art, New York -- Chapter 2: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -- Works cited -- Chapter 3: Tate, London -- Works cited -- Chapter 4: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -- Works cited -- Chapter 5: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven -- Note -- Works cited -- Chapter 6: The Kitchen, New York -- Chapter 7: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis -- Chapter 8: Performa, New York -- Works cited -- Chapter 9: LIMA, Amsterdam -- Works cited -- Chapter 10: Pics or it didn't happen -- Interview -- Note -- PART II: Essays -- Chapter 11: Performing the archive and exhibiting the ephemeral -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 12: At the edge of the 'living present': re-enactments and re-interpretations as strategies for the preservation of performance and new media art -- Works cited -- Chapter 13: Documenting interaction -- Challenges of documenting interaction -- From video recordings to documentary collections -- Rokeby's Very Nervous System -- Tmema's Manual Input Workstation -- Notes -- Works cited -- Chapter 14: Screen capture and replay: documenting gameplay as performance -- Perfect capture -- Replay history -- A performance capture tool -- Works cited -- Chapter 15: Mixed reality performance through ethnography -- Ethnography and systems design -- Design ethnography in the context of artistic engagements -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- Afterword: the intention of the artist and the point of view of the audience: performance documentation revisited -- Works cited -- Index