Krauter, Sarah G. Marsh, «Never Mere Observation: Performance, Technology, and the Act of Looking». Ph.D., , Ann Arbor, United States 2017 Abstract Herbert Blau, in defining the act of looking as “never mere observation”, describes how the action of the visual faculty is not simply about seeing, but the engagement in an active, circulatory exchange between culture and viewer. Never Mere Observation posits a dialectical relationship between spectatorship, performance, and emerging technologies. In this study, my aim is to track a pattern of ideas and use to assert the possible connections between the evolution of technology and the evolution of narrative structure. The biomechanical function of the act of looking…