> a short notice from chicago :)
>
> ATHE conference has been wonderful, meeting juli and dan and twyla
> (and
> many others) in RL is a lot of fun!
>
> till it is put on oudeis.org (georg, could you??),
> some info about mz talk can be found at
>
> http://st1hobel.phl.univie.ac.at/~wunderer/athe/athe.html
>
> sorry, it looks like a "last minute / late night" stuff (and it is :)
> )
>
I really enjoyed this. The picture makes a big difference. I finally
found the writing site and the script for the seven episodia. oudeis is
bringing together international collaborators to create
a new work based on Homer's Odyssey. The
final result will be
performed by real and virtual actors on
several different stages
around the world at the same time, all
connected via the Internet.
Using real actors in simultaneous
interaction with virtual actors, this
global theater production will follow
the journey of Odysseus
across seven international stages and
will utilize the Web as the
eighth stage to link actors and
audiences alike in this
work-in-progress.
Scheduled date of performance is 1998.
> looking forward getting into conversation and discussion with you
> again
> I am trying to catch up as soon as I am settled down in New York
> (whatever this means :) )
>
Ah, I can smell Chicago on you, Monika. Is it windy? They don't call it
the Windy City for nothing. I love Chicago. We went to Chicago for
spring break during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chicago has the Museum of
Natural History and the University of Chicago and Lake Michigan in your
face. In the winter, it's a beast.
Settled in NY. Yes, there's something paradoxical about that, isn't
there? You don't go to NY to get settled. You go to NY to visit. You
can't actually live in newyork--although people do. But that's not life,
is it? Not life, maybe, but what kind of a place can have an
off-Broadway theater district. You gotta have Broadway first!
I am learning to use the Wilson All-in-One Room so we have weather for
the sea and Hell, and we have the five senses. You know this type of
room because you used it for the oudeis ship. I have added the alias
'fools' to the oudeis ship. So you can @go fools. Not sure about that
one, but 'nobody' and 'anon' seem like naturals to me. I have taken a
copy of the oudeis ship and redecorated it as the Land of Ghosts, the
underworld, hell, xibalba, dead, Hades.
I had to disconnect a lot of things from the copy--I didn't take
contents or exits for example. But I may have failed to disconnect
something or done something improperly so if members of the list are
having a problem using some feature of the oudeis ship, you can contact
me. I'm probably responsible for the screwup. And even if I'm not, maybe
I can help.
I'd like to make the oudeis ship into more of a Homeric vessel and use
some of the vocabulary and spatial sense appropriate to that. Remember
this is the space we use for backstage interaction between locations
after the show. It's also our meeting space. Maybe in the long run this
is two different spaces. But I am seeing them as one. How is the Lotus
wine? does it do the trick? Has anyone tried it?
I think this is a VRML 1.0 project with avatars and no collisions. You
have to give them blood before they can communicate. Odysseus sacrifices
an animal. He does not sacrifice humans but the practice is contemporary
among Hera's followers. Odysseus is the middle-aged patriarch, married
to a woman who could have been a matriarch, was in fact the matriarch in
Odysseus' absence. It was the custom to take a king for a year or eight
or as long as he could hang onto. Otherwise he had to die. Or a
substitute had to die. He also had a 'tanist'--an understudy,
replacement, twin. So maybe the tanist was sacrificed, or maybe a young
boy. I mean how many bull calves do you need? Agamemnon was a big
disappointment. Robert Graves says he thinks Nausicaa narrated the
Odyssey. He gets this idea from Samuel Butler. So the English see it as
the transition from matriarchy to patriarchy in the Aegean archepelago
and coastlines.
Do you really think that the audience is curious about whether the actor
has eaten bad fish or not?