>Hello Karin, Monika, and everyone,
Hey back to the world
:)
>
>I cross posted this because it relates to both ideas and productions. Can't
>keep my thoughts separate...oh well.
>
good thing - makes the project more complex I think than really dividing it
in parts ! :)
>Video:
>It would be nice to use video conferencing for the performance. The visual
>element is very important so I think this may be one of the things that
>could be applied for by all the members together. An international effort to
>get top quality video conferencing may succeed. Obviously there's much
>better equipment than CU-SEEME. Gertrude Stein Theatre had some good
>equipment for video and they had success. If a proposal for high quality
>video equipment doesn't work then Monika's suggestion seems like the best
>way. Use video to capture moments of the performance from the other stages
>and moments from the audiences around the world. Seeing is so important.
>Consider it.
>
speaking of Gertrud Stein - I tried to get in touch with them but failed. I
liked what I see when we visited them in summer and thought they would like
collaboration. At least THEY would have an theater with Internet
connections (and they are sponsored by IBM :)
>Specialists:
>Monika, you definitely are the project specialist. Sorry, I should have made
>myself clearer. I was thinking of getting someone as the literary
>specialist.
hm, yes actually you are right. I just thought about for what I was "hired"
by the team: my function is called Producer Dramaturge. So what I
understand in dramaturgy would be the "historical, reflective" background
of Homer, the greeks and the Internet. But in our work the functions are
not as clear as they are in some theater groups. This work turns out to be
more and more _collaborative_ and the fields merge into one another (see
above) which is a very good thing.
Dan you bring a lot of experience in, I was thinking a lot about what you
said about the importance of visualization and I am sure we will bring
video in somehow. But shouldn't the concept of the light cones cover most
of the visual part? Because this would actually be the theater performance.
The theater event itself will be more for sure, but this should only be the
environment as to speak the outlook of the theater, the room, the audience.
Just think of the influence the outlook and the atmosphere of an theater
has to its play. Seeing Brian playing "Shear madness" in an Hotel was much
different from the theater I was the night before in Chicago (in the first
floor of an house, only one room with a bar) - and the theater, where we
went together, a cabaret - like theater room ....
For me the use of video has the function of choosing a room which is full
of red velvet or which looks like an ancient greek auditorium.
You are definitely right with the point of bringing in a specialist.
Actually we still have some problems with the title of our work "oudeis" -
I had a email discussion with Dean Wallraff, who is currently working on an
CD-Rom about the Odyssey who told me that he only found Odysseus call
himself "outis" - a problem of translation that will appear for sure in our
later work as well.
Gernot and me discussed in our last meeting about who could be the
"specialist" and be asked that questions.
>I think many professors would be
>honored and excited to work on Oudeis.
Do you know someone on the net? - I will continue looking for a professor
in Vienna.
a lot of sun,
Mon
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