Dates: Sunday, 18 September, 2011 - 13:00 - 14:30 For this panel we propose to reflect upon the practice of digital performance with the use of webcams, addressing issues of intimacy in the network. Webcamming refers to the use of webcams to stream live from personal environments to the internet, and develop life-logs that archive such practices as online documentations of the everyday. Webcamming practices have been theorised with different results from within the areas of digital performance /cyberformance. On the one hand, an historical account of digital performance equates the use of webcams in the hands of artists with the “subversion of surveillance,” and an ironic questioning of webcam’s myths of authenticity and immediacy. The field of cyberformance, on the other hand, theorises webcamming in the context of increasing online participation, and the types of collaborations it facilitates within web 2.0 environments. However, none of these analyses addresses the increasing intimacy facilitated by the mainstream use of surveillance/communicational technologies for personal video streaming and archiving, or the particular aesthetic and subversive spectatorial positions that inform such intimate video practices. Our proposal for this panel attempts to fill in such gap by looking at the genealogy of personal video-streaming and its place within art research on webcamming and the surveillant-sousveillant space.
1.What are the characteristics of cyberformance in the context of networks of intimacy? What defines its particular aesthetics and the spectatorial positions that inform such intimate video practices? 2. Now that people’s lives are performed for the Internet and distributed across multiple social networks as chunks of self-authored content, is it still possible to separate or distinguish performance art from the performative stream of everyone else’s lives? 3.How is online performance conceptualised from a contemporary art and media surveillance-sousveillance perspective? More information: http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/panel/intimate-tv-webcamming-social-life-logging-surveillant-sousveillant-space Presenters: Annie Abrahams http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.abrahams Margarida Carvalho http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.carvalho Cinzia Cremona http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/ms.cremona Eunice Gonçalves Duarte http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.goncalves-duarte Helen Varley Jamieson http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.jamieson Chaired by: Paula Roush http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/.roush Maria Lusitano <http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/visual-artist.lusitano Best regards, Paula, Maria, Annie, Margarida, Helen, Cinzia & Eunice ___________________________________________________________________ ISEA2011 ISTANBUL - The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
