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Welcome to the Performance in a Mediatised Culture blog, 2009. This is a space for you to share images, ideas and experiences throughout the course.

IMPORTANT!! CLASS EXCURSION WEEK 6:
Contrary to what your course outline says, please meet at 9.30am in the usual classroom for the week 6 excursion. We will go from there.

ALSO: AVAILABLE RESOURCES
Selected works that we have watched are now with Iain Murray at the Level 3 Webster desk and are available for you to borrow and watch on campus. You can use these for your essay preparation:

Level 3 desk:
- ‘Cesena’ and ‘Brussels’ in Tragedia Endogonidia by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio
- Chunky Move Mortal Engine or Glow
- Blast Theory Uncle Roy All Around You and Can You See Me Now?
- The Wooster Group Route 1 & 9 (The Last Act)
- Granular Synthesis Modell 5

unsw LIBRARY:
- Einstein on the beach[videorecording] :the changing image of opera /
- The Builders Association [videorecording] : Show excerpts and trailers, 1994-2007

Bill Viola documentaries (COFA):
- I do not know what it is that I am like[videorecording] /
- The passing[videorecording]
- Selected works[videorecording] /

Tuesday, March 17, 2009



Check this out from SMH today: 'Programmer replaces missing finger with thumb drive'
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4 comments:

  1. Anthony KalergisMarch 21, 2009 at 9:21 PM

    Practical but slightly gross =S

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  2. Leigh G.March 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM

    There was a movie that has come out sometime in the past several years (I Robot? Bicentennial Man, could be both that deal with this issue, not sure) that deals with integrating robot parts into humans. It's an interesting question--if you have a robotic arm, you are a human with a robotic arm. But how far can you go before you lose your essence of being a human being? And if we take Robin William's character Bicentennial Man, although he was created as a robot, he has an element that is human, that has emotions and later is able to have the same sensory experiences as human. Is he any less human because he was not born that way?

    To add onto blurring the definition of what is and who can be human, then you have the problem of what rights can be extended to these "people." Should Robin William's character be granted the same rights as a human? Should a human lose "his" rights if "he" replaces "himself" with robotic elements? Why would the born human potentially have more of a right than the other?

    ~Leigh Goldsmith

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  3. CainanMarch 24, 2009 at 8:40 PM

    Would you allow yourself to be implanted by a mircochip?
    One that allows the Government/authorities to track you down?
    There are several debates about this issue. Loss of privacy etc...
    Here are some links you may be interested to read:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microchip_implant_(human)
    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6986864673
    http://www.rense.com/general64/freewill.htm

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  4. AnonymousMarch 25, 2009 at 3:14 AM

    Continuing with this notion of robotic parts, I recently read an article where Japanese scientists have created a humanoid supermodel robot, which will be unveiled at Tokyo Fashion Week. She has been designed to have facial features that physical move as well as the slim body of any other fashion model. My first reaction was of all the things we could create, why a supermodel? I thought this was quite interesting as technology has so far advanced that humans might be redundant one day. How sad.

    Here is the link if you guys are interested: http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/one-of-them-is-a-supermodel-the-other-a-robot/2009/03/17/1237054739796.html

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