Lyndell Walsh, Ali Saad and Stacey Neumann
Our group has chosen to do a case study on 'In the Shadows' a very recent theatre work which was performed at PACT Youth Theatre in Erskenville from the 29th to the 3rd May this year. The work was created and performed by 'Stage Juice', an emerging Sydney theatre group which is run and produced by many UNSW associates including Katy Green and Tom Hogan. It was an extremely short work lasting only approximately 40mins and incorporated dance, music and projection as well as prerecorded and live video.
Our study is particularly aimed at deconstructing the performance's relationship to surveillance and liveness as well as highlighting the obstacles experienced by emerging artists in Sydney when engaging with new media technologies.
The artistic director, performer and creator of the work, Katy Green has agreed to do a video interview with us so we can use some of the footage in our presentation. Perhaps even begin the presentation with Katy introducing the work with a short summary as there was no video taken of the performance. Photos and diagrams will also be used to describe the performance.
We plan to compare our personal impressions of the performance with it's intended impact upon audiences to assess its relative success (or failure) and possible room for future improvement, tempering this analysis of course with a recognition of its low budget and limited access to new technology.
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We've talked about how interesting this case study can be, both for how it feeds into ideas raised in the course, and industry perspectives (the pragmatics of making this kind of work, for example). You needed to really spell out the stakes of this research more clearly in your proposal: it didn't do justice to your central ideas. For a start, you need to explain why ideas of liveness and surveillance become important to this work, and make references to the readings in class.
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ReplyDeleteSince i came last year to UNSW, i wanted to check out the iCinema facility, and it was an amazing experience.
On a personal level, my favorite presentation was the one with all the tv show on. I am just imagining this system being the new way to watch tv at home. It wouldbe able to have such as system, but then, you start thinking how long till you start getting frustrated from all those screens surrounding the screen you want to watch.
However if you take it for a more educational or informational context, then you have a huge catalogue that you can browse from for videos that you want to see. Those videos could be previews for other interactive shows. Like the one we saw in the beginning, when we went to that area (cant remember the name of it) but there were monkeys around us.
I can easily assume that the iCinema could have an amazing purpose when it gets more used. I mean imagine playing Time Crisis on a system like that.
Ali Saad
This sounds like a very interesting case study. The fact that the duration of the piece is so short you can really deconstruct the whole piece. Just a suggestion i think you guys should even think about the title 'In the shadows' especially in relation to surveillance as cameras can be in the shadows we don't know that they are following us-play with it. Can't wait to see it!
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