thanks for this report, ruth; i had fully intended to tune in, but somehow completely forgot about it. i can't even remember now what i was immersed in (either UpStage or the magdalena web site rebuild ... ) but even tho i'd thought about it ealier that day, it just left my brain - darn! :( sounds like it went really well. i'll have to try & catch the next one ...
h : ) On 12/06/11 2:21 PM, ruth catlow wrote: > Hi NBers, > > For those of you that chose not to tune in as voyeurs on our dinner > (dining as spectator sport?!) I just want to give a public cheer to > Pollie and also to share some reflections on a playful and enjoyable > experience. > > Pollie designed an elegant telematic dinner-setting using an live image > of the remote table-top, projected down onto our physical table-top, > next to our own dinner settings. > > There was excellent food. According to the Latitude rules we all cooked > a Russian course. During the later part of the evening we all observed > (and this has come up before in my encounters with Annie Abrahams's work > with telematics and networked performance) that we found ourselves > regressing to a teenage condition of relating...flirty and playful - > free from the more careful observances of appropriate attention to ones' > fellow diners. > > Perhaps it is the effect of technical precarity (there is something > inherently rebellious about the technology- it just cannot be relied > upon to behave). The reduction in raw sensory data (necessitates > risk-taking - we have to do more guessing than usual about what our > remote guests mean by their gestures, words, audio expressions). In > addition to the disruption of the audio visual signal, Pollie's physical > set up forced us to relate to our remote guests via an image projected > downwards on to the horizontal plane of the table. Ordinarily guests' > mutual verticality is very much a part of how they relate (perhaps until > later in the evening for the more adventurous;). We all played hard to > compensate for this. Perhaps the tech set-up could be more fully > anthropomorphised as a sassy but uncontrollable teenager and listed as > the hostess of future dinners: ) > > So the telematic kissing, and the stroking, and the drawn lips, and the > lying (uncomfortable and contorted) with our heads on the table to gaze > and laugh into the camera for each other are what I remember.... along > with the analogue instant messaging and competitive joke telling. > > > I recommend Annie Abrahams libidinous telematics here > http://bram.org/toucher/TBK.html > and just in case anyone hasn't seen it already Paul Sermon's telematic > dreaming http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/telematic-dreaming/ Any > more for any more? > > We also got to express our identities as differently located groups to > each other by swaping revolutionary slogans and competitive joke > telling. The telenoika guests were wonderfully quick to assert the FOSS > alternative www.indenti.ca to www.tw**ter.com when they thought we might > be in need of a little political training; ) > > I am really excited by the subversive possibilities this opens up for > non-suited networked communication- if one were able to really embrace > and explore the range of potential relational wormholes that the > experience throws up. Because dinners are such key sites for > power-broking and decision-making it would be good to see this developed > so that we could imagine non-artists and researchers enticed to play and > communicate in this way- changing what gets thought about, decided and > acted upon. > > Thanks Pollie and Brittany > great stuff. > > cheers > > Ruth > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
