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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] /

Monday, May 11, 2009

controlling technology with facial movements

watching good news week last night, it was mentioned that a new ipod has been developed where you can change the songs with a wink, frown or poking your tongue out... it was then added that the technology is hoped to be extended and used with other forms of technology. paul mcdermont joked about the absurdity of the extent technology and its everyday uses has come in saying something along the lines that, 'this technology is being proposed to be used around the house, with a simple wink devices can be turned on. its much like my lighting system at home, where a simple movement of the finger turns on the lights'... do you agree with this view that we are just becoming way too reliant on the embededness of technology in our lives and perhaps even finding new functions or uses that are completely unnecessary... 



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  1. ChristopherMay 12, 2009 at 6:20 AM

    I think that in the average house hold perhaps it is overkill and what Paul Mcdermont says does ring true (even though I think ideas like this are cool).
    But in terms of the research and development of the technology I think it could have fantastic benifits for people who are wheelchair bound for example.
    So perhaps; yes,we are becomeing too relient on the embededness of technology, but that is more the way we apply technology. As for finding new functions and uses, I think they can be implemented in a way that will be of great use, and I think they are ideas well worth persuing.

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