Event overview
Part of Thursday Club Summer Season 2009
Our presentation, Theorizing Performance in Virtual Spaces, will describe and analyze the theoretical issues for Performance Studies posed by new genres of performance in virtual environments, such as Second Life. We will also demonstrate the technological modifications to Second Life that our team has developed to facilitate a new form of mediated performance and outline the experiments that we have initiated to take advantage of this technology. Utilizing a panel discussion format involving live participants and avatars in Second Life, our presentation aims to shed light on the unique opportunities provided by virtual environments in formulating new approaches to theorizing contemporary performance practices. A fundamental premise of the discipline of Performance Studies is that theory is enlivened and most rigorously tested when it hits the ground in practice. We at Georgia Tech have a particular opportunity to test that premise, because our institution is a meeting ground for technological practice and critical reflection. The Augmented Environments Lab (AEL) and the Wesley Center for New Media are in the process of developing technological modifications to Second Life that will facilitate a new form of mediated performance, one in which actors and audience share a performance space that is both physical and virtual. We are already planning performances that will take advantage of this technology: these performances will be a negotiation between professional improv artists in the city of Atlanta and technologists here at Georgia Tech.
Further detail at:
http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu
Contact:
kfarley6@mail.gatech.edu
Programmed and organized by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios.
Supported by the Goldsmiths Graduate School and the Department of Computing
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2009 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
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