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[emlp2020]

Tofts, Varnelis, Dixon Chapter 15

We move from classic concepts of performance

            (from the specator/theoretical point of view)

to the engaged, participatory, customizable, and dynamic performance spaces availed by pervasive digital technologies—which have given us the Internet as well as Cyberspace

We’ll unpack these distinctions in a couple of weeks with Danny Downes’ Interactive Realism, and directly address our own involvement and experience with pervasive social and mobile technologies via Beth Coleman’s Hello Avatar!

What is Virtual? What is Real? What is Actual?

[Reality / identity are socially constructed but also technologically constructed.]

Technological determinism is a giant spaghetti monster, and creationism is socially constructed.

  Network culture and the shift from postmodern representational concerns to presentational ones—and self-referential ones: MATRIX plus a sh*tload of performance [art] meets webcam:

  “A BREAKDOWN BETWEEN PERFORMANCE & LIFE

  “Instead of immediate, lived experience, the contemporary subject relies on the immediated real, a condition in which mediation is a given and life becomes a form of performance, constantly lived in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback” (Varnelis) 

[Hasn’t this always been the case?]

  We Live in Public / YouTube, 4chan, Xtube, NSFW, Chatroulette,

Justin.TV suicide

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4071805.stm

http://english.pravda.ru/history/31-03-2008/104728-suicide_clubs-0/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCH9mt0Pow&feature=fvwrel

IMMERSION

Haptic technologies and gesture-based computing

 Duke Immersive Virtual Environment

  http://vimeo.com/26047677 REAL 3D

  GAMES and WAR

http://www.thewip.net/contributors/2009/05/remote_warfare_radically_chang.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/26/142781012/war-by-remote-control-drones-make-it-easy

  “It is possible to over control the aircraft or to lose your situational awareness.”

  http://books.google.com/books/about/Virtual_War.html?id=LJuMweris0QC

  WHAT I LEARNED IN THE REAL WORLD AS AN AVATAR

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130305051047-21564708-what-i-learned-about-the-real-world-as-an-avatar?trk=mp-details-rr-rmpost

  YOUR AVATAR CAN INFLUENCE YOUR REAL WORLD BEHAVIOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuOphOwjIDM&feature=youtu.be

  more: http://www.good.is/posts/maybe-your-avatar-controls-you

OCULUS RIFT

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/01/11/will-oculus-rift-be-the-coolest-gadget-ever-an-interview-with-creator-palmer-luckey/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Using Oculus Rift To Swap Your Gender

http://digg.com/video/using-oculus-rift-to-swap-your-gender 

Video Game Developer Tries to Recreate the Autistic’s World

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/14/video-game-developer-tries-to-recreate-the-autistics-world/

VIRTUAL SMITHSONIAN

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vtp/1-desktop/

(see also virtual Sistine chapel)

  IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM

http://oculusrift-blog.com/immersive-journalism/2243/

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3018099/put-on-a-helmet-and-youre-in-the-story-why-virtual-reality-journalism-is-the-future

  http://vimeo.com/27344103

placeholder – Brenda laurel

[tsparks]

Reading a post at [varnelis.net](http://varnelis.net/blog/into_the_cloud_with_zombies) by [Kazys Varnelis](http://www.varnelis.net/cv) Varnelis covers territory that is not new but remains a "dead fly in the ointment". The vast demand for energy created by the reality of having data instantly accessible anytime, anywhere, Thought provoking, but I am uncertain what our response should be.

[elbuato]

The Networking of Public Space-- Rainbows End

There was a moment in "Rainbows End" (which I can't find the page number now) but basically Miri's imaging software glitches for a moment and she remarks of herself as something of an "ordinary fat girl". This part reminded me of "The Networking of Public Space" where Varnelis and Friedberg talk about how even our physical spaces are being removed for virtual space, such as how things like facebook have dominated the old malt-shop type scenario. Miri is not only avoiding the tangible and real body that is her self, but flicks out of it like it's not even the real her. This mediation is so strong that this phrase is passed haphazardly and fades into the book as if it never happened; it was as if the glimpse of the real was only a glitch in an otherwise good thing.

[taraendell]

"Places are filled with individual identities, language, references, and unformulated rules; non-places are spaces of solitary individuality." - Varnelis and Friedberg "Place: the Networking of Public Space" 

With the emergence of the internet and its growing popularity and the thousands upon thousands of networks it has created, are there really any "spaces of solitary individuality" left any more? 

[icantpromisenothing]

On Siri and Disruptive Techonologies

Kazys Varnelis discussing Siri, what he calls a "disruptive technology" "As widely noted, Siri has been programmed with a sense of humor (see shitsirisays.tumblr.com) generally described as "sassy." It's a brute force approach, akin to a 21st century Eliza but it helps make the software more complete, delivering the illusion that the device is truly intelligent." http://varnelis.net/blog/on_siri_and_disruptive_techonologies