To paraphrase one of America's most infamous croo...presidents, "let me be
perfectly clear about this" I was not advocating a position, I was simply
pointing out what I thought were the logical consequences of where we are
headed. It is still somewhat early and inertia hasn't completely taken
over, so there are other CHOICES available.
On 20 Dec 1996 12:31:27 +0100 Monika Wunderer stated:
>so than, what would we have? would this be still theater with human beings?
>or just puppets going on their position?
>I think you are right, that the setup of the play is very choreographed and
>without much space to improvisation. But I assume that if we just send the
>light cones to the positions the actor decided to have during the
>rehearsals this would just be showing how "the director intended the play
>to be".
>
>What I would like the audience to feel is, that what they see is what
>really happens on the other stage.
>
>
>But on the other hand I agree. Perhaps there is a possibility to simplified
>some movements of the light cones, because we will know _where_ they are
>going in certain moments.
And on 20 Dec 1996 18:57:29 +0100 (MET) Rainer Fuegenstein stated:
>removing the internet as transport media for sensor/position data and use
>"pre-programmed" light cones might make things easier, but then, what are
>the other stages for ?
Monika and Rainer are exactly right and this not only applies to the RLs
but to the Web as well, for the light cones could be preprogrammed for the
Web audience as easily as they are for the RL locations. This, of course,
would still leave the text and music for transmission, but this does
present us with a dilemma and a rather troublesome question.
Given the situation as described in "Heavenly Bodies Collide" if we do not
explicitly choreograph the movements of the actors we will be courting
disaster and if we do choreograph them, we will be eliminating a large
measure of spontaneity and removing much of the justification for the other
stages. However, does this mean that we should do something just for the
sake of doing it (transmission of sensor/position data) or should it have a
purpose?
I think a major part of the problem may be our overreliance on the light
cones and grids, both of which are excellent ideas but which do not provide
all of the solutions or answers to our questions. In my opinion, there are
other elements we can introduce which will still preserve the need and
desirability of the RL stages as well as the Net and at the same time
improve the theatricality of the performance.
Lee