March 07, 2005
Interactive Video vs Performance Cinema
Live on Empyre, March 2005
From a post by Henry Warwick: "...I would also distinguish the difference between interactive video and performance cinema, and I would tend to question much of what constitutes the "interactivity" of "interactive" video, as much of what I see as "interactive art" (much less video) is not much more than various elaborations on a boolean if/then decision tree, which I find to be completely, and too often profoundly, UNinteractive...
...The other aspect that differs Live vs. Other Cinematic practices (interactive or otherwise) is a matter of synchrony vs diachrony. A movie is diachronous - it is essentially identical from one showing to the next. It can be shown to an empty theatre. It exists as a loop outside of time. A performance is synchronous - it will always differ from one performance to the next: even if the performance is a film and completely diachronous, the reaction of the audience will differ, making each performance unique. It exists Only in time...
As the internet allows a kind of fractal dimension of time (kind of like 1.2 D) where the arrow always goes forward, but it can stop for a while and skip around that which has occurred, it obviates most of the possibilities of any real live cathexis between the audience and performer through the vessel of the art and the environment of the art work itself by the very exigencies involved with what it is to use the internet..." Continue reading this post by Henry Warwick.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:04:28 -0700
From: Henry Warwick
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] interactive video software
To: soft_skinned_space, soft_skinned_space
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Posted by jo at March 7, 2005 07:35 AM
