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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 24, 2009

I came across these two videos a few weeks ago, perhaps you are already familiar with them; having just come into the course I’m not entirely sure what you have covered, but in case you haven’t I suggest that both videos are well worth watching. 

The first video; A Vision of Students Today, deals with modern students/ learning environments and the way they are influenced by a mediatised culture. 

The second; An anthropological introduction to YouTube, is a 55 min detailed presentation dealing with youtube as v global community; how it has evolved, and what it means to us today. 

I think there is a lot of information in this presentation that draws parallels to topics we covered today, like the notion Slavov Zizek expresses about virtual realities “Virtual Reality is experienced as reality without being one” (top left hand box, p2, of the hand out.) And there are plenty of examples of how the accessibility of YouTube creates a platform for performance.

Anyway, I thought it was really interesting and I hope you find it useful.

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  1. BryoniMarch 30, 2009 at 10:44 PM

    Thanks for this, I've only managed to watch the first one and it is depressing (especially for old fashioned teachers like me).

    Is there no value to liveness anymore at all? What should happen in place of large lectures?

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