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August 09, 2004

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Helen Varley Jamieson
On Cyberformance

there are lots of different terms & definitions & many of them are
problematic for all sorts of reasons. that's why i made up the term
'cyberformance' in 2000 & have been using that since then to describe
what i do. my definition of cyberformance is the use of the internet
to bring remote performers together in real time for live
theatrical/performance events. this includes both purely online
performances, where the audience must also be online, performances
for a proximal audience who are together in a physical space where
the performance takes place, or a mix of both. the essential thing is
that the performers are coming together via the internet.

to me, "avatar performance" would mean that the performers are
represented by avatars, much like puppet theatre. so the
cyberformance work that i & avatar body collision has been making
includes avatar performance, but it's not limited to that - we also
use web cams & live performance (we talk about this as being multiple
stages, & layers of re/presentation). "avatar performance" wouldn't
necessarily have to involve the internet - i know of some people in
belgrade who are developing what they call "avatar theatre" & at the
moment it exists as a navigable cd-rom with avatar characters; they
plan to give a live performance using a LAN in a gaming centre - so
that would be avatar performance without being on the internet.

then there is the term "networked performance" - which i guess
includes cyberformance but also other forms of networked performance
that don't involve the internet.

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Posted by newradio at August 9, 2004 11:27 AM

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