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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

So my initial response is that it is such a shame that this space is mostly unavailable. unavailable to the public, and unavailable to the kind of pepole who might think of different ways to use this technology. But this is reasoned with the fact that it is a scientific research lab, not entertainment, and that it is a possible future, not present. I loved the sense of emmersion in the worlds that the VR could achieve, but found my self dis-orientated, and giddy often. I think this is something that our bodies will get used to over time and experience. Yes, i thought the animation was quite naff. But so did they, not a finished product. Still why animate indian gods? The video of moving on the back of the car was intertesting in the motion sickness, i felt strange like that i actually enjoyed feeling sick like that. I feel that as a technology and medium the icenema is developing and growing. At the moment it is not fully utelised by anyone and i feel that as it gains more exposure, and becomes more common place, we will see more works for this medium. I look foward to an emersive real world space, with real people.

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