How about "Performience"?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of helen varley jamieson Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2015 9:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] my Netartizen contribution "prosumer" is not a word for actor+audience, it's a word for producer+consumer, which is about product and consumption, rather than relationship & experience. i have long hunted for a good word for this - for audiences that are participating in a really creative way in a work - & i don't just mean the "interactivity" of pressing a button or something like that. i mean co-authoring in a way that they can insert their own creativity & alter/influence the work. i have written about the "intermedial audience", as a way to understand the role of the audience in cyberformance & potentially other digital art contexts. The concept of intermediality offers a way to approach an audience that is as unfinished and (r)evolutionary as the work it is engaging with. It upgrades the passive spectator to an integral position within cyberformance, without relinquishing the fundamental gap between performer and spectator. At the same time, intermediality acknowledges the mental multitasking that cyberformance demands of its audience and the paradigm shift that is forced onto those more accustomed to the traditional codes of audience behaviour. (this was written 8 years ago & perhaps needs updating now given then increased possibilities for audience participation/contribution.) i don't think the intermedial audience are "players of equal measure", & i'm not sure if this really exists (when an artist or group has conceived the work or created the context for it except maybe in gaming?). h : ) On 4/03/15 5:02 28AM, Karl Heinz Jeron wrote: Hello, there is a word for actor and audience in the social media realm: prosumer! And hey if at all this is postdramatic theatre. Followers equals audience? I don't think so. Cheers KH 2015-03-04 0:05 GMT+01:00 isabel brison <[email protected]>: Hello, I can't really agree: 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. Most of us are audience most of the time, as actors need audience to be actors. And what's the difference between a screen and a stage? except that on a screen it is not always considered bad manners to join in the act. And some of us deliberately choose to be audience, others act occasionally, some act as a hobby and others professionally ( though I'm not sure that acting is a good analogy at all for social interaction - there should be a word for actor and audience all in one, and possibly for combinations of different amounts of one and the other). how do we insert ourselves into this story, not as receivers, but as players of equal measure, Tweet! Retweet! Respond! - Seriously, that account only has 14 followers. How can it act at all in the absence of audience? Is it a bad actor? If we're all actors then how many of us are bad actors and should consider a change of carreer? Oh and a funny thing: I followed the link above and it gave me an error. It's really <https://twitter.com/The_People_Came> @The_People_Came. Was that on purpose I wonder? Cheers Isabel - semi-professional lurker -- http://isabelbrison.com http://tellthemachines.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- helen varley jamieson [email protected] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.talesfromthetowpath.net http://www.upstage.org.nz
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