>>>> "there should be a word for actor and audience all in one²
@isabel this is all very subjective, but if you look back at the history of performance art, you will see tendencies (particularly among pioneering artists such as Robert Whitman, Alan Kaprow, and others) to break down the distinction between audience and performer. The use of space, material, media, etc., are all ways in which performance has dissolved this distinction, and you see it more and more in contemporary theater that involves audience participation. It is my personal opinion that social media promises, at least in part a new look at the collective forms that emerged in the 1960s & 1970s. I don¹t want to go into a full-blown lecture here (my students get enough of that), but the link between the Happening and social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, the mailing lists, etc., suggest there is plenty of creative room for improvisation and audience engagement + interaction + remix in this form of participatory, collective narrative via the network. This is not to suggest a rule, but rather a potential. 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 @The_People_Came <https://twitter.com/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
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