On 16/03/15 09:01 AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote: > > i am really interested working with the idea of 'liveness' in my > performances, using an unpredictable choreography for the show that comes > from an online source such as real-time datasets, live code or HTML that > is pulled in from a website. my performances are data-enactments. yet > another reoccurring theme in my works is the idea of having an > anthropomorphized part of technology perform it's own 'logic', which > leads to performances of personified devices and websites, and even the > Old Internet her/himself.
Network- or data-driven- liveness is an interesting phenomenon. When we are all so mechanised within the networked economy and within social media, information flows and code can appear to have the traditionally human-associated spontaneity and unpredictability that we lack. Historically in the arts think of the affectless astronauts in "2001", killed by the one thing on the ship that cares about the mission, its mainframe computer. Or going back further the ways that human and automaton speech patterns swap over during the course of the play in "Rossum's Universal Robots". Technology as rider (in the Voudoun sense, and hello William Gibson still...) or summoned spirit (add magick to taste) makes explicit and tractable the phenomena of our lives that are usually invisibly determined by these systems. I like this strategy. - Rob.
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