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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] /

Thursday, April 23, 2009

being transported to the icinema

After going to India last year I did not think that so soon would I return to this rural Jurassicesque place.  The minute we entered the realm surrounded by these boulders, palm trees, ancient ruins and rice patty fields, I knew I was instantly back in Hampi.  Nostalgia consumed me as I felt as though, for a minute, I was back in the beauty of this place that held so much significance to me a year ago.  My experience of the icinema was that of pure bliss and familiarity, regardless of the synthetic elephants, animated Garnesh and stereotypical Indian tunes, I felt a connection with this new media form by which I was able to lose sight of my ‘actual’ space and place! 

 

What a treat of an excursion, being exposed to this new media form, which I felt enhanced, a simulated environment, to the utmost potential other then actually being there.  This innovative technology is the closest I have felt we have come to teleportation and cannot wait to see the next phases of these projects and the evolution of our ever-changing mediatized culture. 

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