I'm still not entirely sure about social dining as a spectator sport.
You are excluded from a crucial element- the food.
I was a bit freaked out at the end of the evening when i was reminded
that the whole thing had been streamed- such a rookie oversight- I
constantly lecture students - if you are using the Internet you are 'in
public'.
: )
On 12/06/11 16:46, Annie Abrahams wrote:
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] <mailto:[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 <http://www.indenti.ca> to www.tw
<http://www.tw>**ter.com <http://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] <mailto:[email protected]>
> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
>
--
____________________________________________________________
helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
http://www.creative-catalyst.com
http://www.avatarbodycollision.org
http://www.upstage.org.nz
____________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected] <mailto:[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/
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
_______________________________________________
NetBehaviour mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
