<x-flowed>Hello --
Many thanks Johannes for filling us in on the interesting details about the
workshop at Hellerau and to Doug for opening up some critical questions
related to "live simultaneous/ telematic web-based and interactive
performance projects". I am here in Arizona working on the documentation of
the Cellbytes project. In addition to the general announcement site that
stimulated Doug's posting -- there are now a set of several linked pages
that provide SOME reflection and analysis and quite a bit of description
related to the process of the project. You can go either through the main
site http://isa.vprc.asu.edu/cellbytes/ or directly to the documentation
pages http://isa.vprc.asu.edu/cellbytes/scott/ --
Hopefully this site will provide some response to Doug's request to know
more about how this sort of work is being approached and a bit about why. I
find that in the context of such an intense two week project that is
largely a practical exploration (and most of that in problem solving form)
that critical positioning evolves slowly and may need the distance of some
time to find a coherent form. I have written a bit on the site about this,
but not much. Of course, I am avoiding one of his questions regarding why
do these sorts of projects continue to employ the techno-rhetoric,
especially in the press releases, that they do. I have different responses
to this -- one of them being that the art of rhetoric and of advertising
are the same -- to persuade someone to take a look, to pay attention. This
art is also context dependent -- so I don't have a problem with most
performance work using emerging technologies to advertise themselves as
'future' or 'cyber' something. Some are just better poets with it than
others. I know that many of these groups are as tired as everyone else of
having to use the same tiny lexicon over and over.
Something to add to this --- a quote from Johannes' posting [25 July Re:
HELLERAU WORKSHOP 2.0] captures a flavor of this sort of experimentation
and research that seems essential to me -- having his 'spectral analysis'
done (you might want to read the post) revealed an unusal pattern. Johannes
writes:
"On the left side (serial processing: the logical,rational and speech
side), I sometimes show strange patterns, flatlands, so called
"Todstell-reflexe" (simulated dead reflex), you know, like when an animal
feels it is trapped and pretends to be dead. I don't know what it means."
I feel the same way looking in on some of the work that has been done here
during CellBytes (and there has been a lot) -- I don't know what it means
yet. We will certainly see faster networks with the possibility of full
motion video streaming (such as what we are using here), but I don't know
if we will ever witness a critical mass of dance performers and
choreographers making multi-site simultaneous performance work in the
future -- maybe we will. Maybe we won't.
Comments on the cellbytes documentation site are welcome.
best,
Scott
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