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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, April 28, 2009

iCinema Excursion

The iCinema excursion was a completely new experience to anything I've encountered before. I was impressed by the level of technology and capabilities iCinema presented for opportunities of live and mediatised performances. There were moments in the cinema, particularly when we saw all the television screens with different images projected, that caused a sensory overload for me. Because there was so much data and images to absorb, I was overwhelmed and ended up lacking focus on one particular element or image as I struggled to capture everything, in the end not really absorbing any of the images.

My senses also reacted differently to what was shown/heard. My ears and sound were the dominant sense and when there were images as well as sound, like in the Wooster Group's clip, I found myself visually attracted to what I was hearing, so my sight was dictated by what I as hearing, and ignored the clips where there was only the visual and no audio.

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