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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

icinema excursion

I thoroughly enjoyed the immersive experience I encountered at the icinema. This feeling lasted throughout the rest of the day, even after I had left the enclosed room. I felt like I had been on a journey and seen a part of the future that everyone around me on the street was unaware of. The immersion happened instantly as the rainforest environment surrounded us and slowly panned up towards the tree tops as we fell to the rainforest ground.

As each exotic destination appeared my neck couldn’t turn quick enough to take in the images from every angle. I did however find the animated projections placed in Hampi distracting as I was watching the flying bird-man and missed seeing the rest of the beautiful surrounding landscape. The use of these mystic creatures broke with reality which caused a momentary break in my immersive feeling as I didn’t feel I was in the surreal environment anymore, just a viewer again.

As setting up more and more advanced “home cinema experiences” is becoming a hobby for many people and their private lounge rooms in today’s western society, I couldn’t help but imagine the addictive T-Visionarium in the Harvey Norman catalogue in the not too near future!

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