Re: perspective - update
santiago pereson (jaco@overnet.com.ar)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:56:42 -0300
>2. Live Audience perspective and combination of the Internet
>Right now, as I see it, what would an live audience member see?
>An actor on a stage (a grid) reacting to lights and sound. Is the Internet
>necessary for this? An audience member does not know that the lights are
>being controlled remotely from Australia and if they did know this would it
>really matter? The Internet has proven itself to be very useful as a
>communication tool for collaboration but when it comes to performance its
>use is problematic. Electrical lighting is a very simple example of an
>effective tool for the theatre. It has changed the way theatre is presented.
>IF you took away the electrical lighting from a show you'd see the
>difference. My question, if you did this show without the Internet (that is,
>develop it via e-mail then simply present it without any sort of Internet
>element) would there be any detectable difference to the audience or to the
>performance?
a friend of mine asked me the same question and i was unable to answer...
think we should develop a play in wich internet is indispensable, a play
that is not the same without internet. but how...
santiago
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