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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] /

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Technology immersing with objects?

Has technological advancement submerge with objects of the everyday?

For example the computer coffee table (youtube link)
It is basically a new windows system that looks like a table with touch screen abilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWCgWCoeOg

And an art work by Alissia Melka-Teichroew called “Keys to Your Memory”

Keys to your memory is a USB designed to look like a Victorian era key. The ceramic bodied stick holds either 2GB or 4GB.



So what’s with new technology trying to look like everyday things? Do you think it plays on our feelings of nostalgia to reconnect with our past?
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  1. KarolinaApril 9, 2009 at 9:06 PM

    absolutely!!! i recently bought a friend havianna thong fairy lights... and at the same time considered also purchasing a haviana thing usb memory stick!! for like $60... knowing fully well that a usb nowadays is like half that price..

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  2. BryoniApril 21, 2009 at 6:34 PM

    Nostalgia and the tangible are two interesting ideas raised by these kinds of merchandise. The coffee table reminds me of the interactivity set up by T VISIONARIUM (at icinema). It definitely remakes that idea of a 'coffee table book' (!)

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