Trapped to Reveal - On webcam mediated communication and collaboration. By Annie Abrahams.
I am not a performer, I use performance to do research. I am not a researcher, I use research in my performance pieces. I am a performer who uses research as a medium. I am a performer researching encounters. "Texts by Sherry Turkle, Brad Troemel, Boris Groys, Jacques Rancière and Michael Goddard on Guattari and Berardi, that I have read recently, and an interview I had with Maria Chatzichristodoulou helped me to better understand my webcam performance practice. Besides being a tool to experiment with machine mediated collaboration and communication, these performances also reveal ordinary, vulnerable and messy aspects of human communication." "When people started discussing, dreaming of and glorifying the advantages of Internet collaborations I was very sceptical. Experiences in the past with for instance the French collaborative website called lieudit.org (1998 - 2000) [1] showed me that it was very difficult to negotiate and overcome political and philosophical differences. In fact the advertisements for a lot of the social web devices made me angry, I felt vexed. Did nobody understand that collaboration using machines wasn’t easier, maybe not more difficult either, but simply different from ordinary face to face communication?" more… http://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/18236/18237 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
