Alas! #netartizens <https://twitter.com/hashtag/netartizens?src=hash> #comedy <https://twitter.com/hashtag/comedy?src=hash> of #errors <https://twitter.com/hashtag/errors?src=hash>
Alas! Karl: I am intrigued but mystified and a little perplexed as to the flowing stream of Shakespeare¹s Comedy of Errors that you have adapted for the medium of Twitter and inserted into #netartizens: as to how it engages the collective nature of social media, stimulates dialogue in the context of our #netartizens exploration, provokes a response from all of us as participatory actors on the Twitter stage. To quote our modern day bard, Ruth Catlow: NetArtizen #tip1: initiate and participate in equal measure. When we sit in the theater, we are essentially a receiver of information that is passed from the stage to the audience. But in the world of social media, we are all actors on the stage: the fourth wall is erased, the proscenium dissolves, there are no lights to turn down, the suspension of disbelief is revised, as information (or lines) are passed not just from the one to many, but from everyone to everyone. Perhaps the timeless nature of Shakespeare¹s themes can be thought through for networked space, in which ³initiation² and ³participation² are in fact delivered and performed in equal measure. For me the question is: how do we insert ourselves into this story, not as receivers, but as players of equal measure, to engage and respond and become entangled in the narrative, inserting our own lines, our own mistaken identities, our own comedy of errors. This is the challenge. Randall From: Karl Heinz Jeron <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 2:42 AM To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Subject: [NetBehaviour] my Netartizen contribution Dear NetArtizens and other Netbehaviourists, I've been asked by Randall Packer how I see my work (tweeting the Comedy of Errors) relating to their objective to stimulate dialogue? Take a closer look and you will easily discover very contemorary issues. The fictional twitter account @the_people_cames appropriates the Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare. The plot was not original, of course. Shakespeare, like most other playwrights and authors of that time, based his work on another, earlier work. The plot was well known to the public of the time. It is about the use of mistaken identities, as well as the confusion of twins. This strongly relates to social media ... the realm of the NetArtizens. Happy commenting _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
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