Performance in Telemaric Spaces Nov 2004
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Telematic performance involves linking remote performance spaces through telecommunications to create a shared virtual performance space. The document discusses a workshop on telematic performance between universities in Canterbury and Exeter that failed due to technical issues like delays and image freezing. It also discusses other examples of telematic performance and debates whether the genre is a new form of creative expression or if it lacks the corporeal aspects of live performance.
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Performance in Telemaric Spaces Nov 2004
- 1. Telematic Performance at Warwick Mark Childs, Centre for Academic Practice, University of Warwick
- 2. Labels Virtual performance Virtual theatre Telematic performance Telepresent performance Distributed performance
- 3. Definitions the phrase "telematic performance work" refers to the use of a telecommunication network to establish links between two remote spaces at the same time and to present the activities in those two separate spaces variously as a single performance event. … these activities … make use of the Web as a third performance "space". – Cellbytes http://isa.hc.asu.edu/cellbytes/scott/
- 4. Definitions "telematics" means more than simply videoconferencing, it implies a different awareness of your body and a different engagement with the visual/kinetic information received from the other end (or ends) - Susan Kozel
- 5. Virtual Performance Draws on experiences of technology (specifically virtual reality) explores notions of "self", "location" "body/identity" Exploits advantages of technology accessible, mutable, recordable, transferable, innovative, fun
- 6. The Telematic Performance Susan Kozel, Practitioner based in Vancouver First year students at Warwick Performance and Practice module
- 7. Performance space Physical performance space Virtual performance space
- 8. PC Monitor webcamera Hub P P P uplink PC Monitor webcamera P P Laptop Data projector Video camera Video bus multipoint P P P P screen
- 10. Audiences Performers can see each other on their computers People sit in studio and watch via projection
- 12. Activities in workshop Discussions of concepts Online chat Structured improvisations Creating a virtual face and body Follow the leader Rehearsed performance pieces
- 24. Videoconferenced physical performance Took place Friday, 8th March, 2002 Canterbury and Exeter Eastern physical performance Performers in one half of studio Wall-length screen hung in centre Other half of group projected on screen
- 25. Why did it fail as a workshop? delays in setting up low frame rates image freezing and speeding up time lags
- 26. Why did it fail as a workshop? Inappropriateness of subject matter Selection of activities difficulties with communication difficulties with performance space sightlines inappropriate expectations
- 27. Solutions Include students and staff more in the explorative aspect of the project Use the link to demonstrate work rather than work across the link Make technology part of what is being explored
- 28. Telematic Performance at DMU
- 29. DMU performance examples Mirroring exercise Face Global village people Timelag demonstration
- 30. Differences with Warwick Students based at home for 2 nd and 4 th session Dial-up modems created additional difficulties Performance and connection from own space created different ‘feel’
- 31. Problems with virtual performance Immersive? Engaging? Reliable? Lacking corporeality? Therefore pointless?
- 32. Final Thoughts (1) The idea of the body displaced in time and space though “performing” in a present, virtual space is not enough (in my opinion) to support the rhetoric and hyperbole that drives much of the web-based activity we are speaking of. - Johannes Birringer “Connected Dance”
- 33. (2) But ... In response to ADaPT - a performance across six sites involving: “ live decorporealistions” tearing up paper in front of a camera multiple images of someone swivelling in a chair
- 34. (3) Questions Is this a new area for performance work or a few techies getting over-excited by technology? Is it a springboard for creativity, or a mask for lack of creativity? Is it missing the entire point of theatre, or rediscovering it?
- 35. 3D Visualisation Group Chromakey work Motion capture Virtual reality models Stereoscopic projection