Same for me so sorry thanks Ruth for reminding and the report
Annie On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 3:17 PM, helen varley jamieson < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- *Anger/Colère* http://bram.org/angry/index.php A portrait of Anger? *Touchée Manipilée* Photos, vidéo, texte de la performance du 7 mai à la Tapisserie, Paris http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/touche-manipule/ *Theme Song Revisited* (After Acconci) Video recording of the performance : http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/after-acconci/ <http://vimeo.com/22335939>
_______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
