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Hyperessay
The third space network is a live video broadcast, which focus on broadcasting creative dialogue all over the world.
At the start, what becomes prominent in the broadcast is the various technical issues that appear in the broadcast. Glitches with the sound system, where the poor keynote speaker could not hear everyone else. Glitches in film, where the video would pause Read more →

Are We in LOVE with the Connectedness?


What is love? What makes you fall in love? A lot of people tell me that love is the connection. Having the connection gives the feeling of belonging to a particular person or group. Communication is probably the key to create the connection. Our ancestors created languages for better communication and invented methods and tools to help with communication including, Read more →

The Profound Art of Networked Practice

Networked practice is indisputably one of the most revolutionary media in art to date. The engagement of social media has assimilated into the daily, who is to say how far it has burgeoned as a lifestyle, let alone an artistic media. What seems important to me is that we understand the blurred lines between the art, the philosophy, the Read more →

My favourite part of Kidnap is probably its ability to transfer the creative courage and power from the artist to the performer to the audience. It is this salience that creates an unstageable act of artistic research, a candid experience not just for those who participate in it, but also for those who watch it.This transfer of power was precisely what Steve Dixon had discussed in his essay on cybernetics and existentialism, which I wrote about in one of my blog posts. Putting the viewer into the position of captivity forces them to question the very nature of existence, freedom, aloneness, etc. What would have been very interesting is to tie this transfer of power to the overall objective of the Symposium. As you could see, the audience was very active in the chat space, where they were free to comment and express their opinion at any point in time. This is essentially the idea of social broadcasting, transferring power from the hierarchical nature of traditional broadcasting (the monologue) to the collaborative, social forms that flatten the hierarchy and turn control over to the viewer. I wanted to mention that because tying your excellent commentary to the broader themes of the symposium would have been a nice addition to your essay. One thing I want to point out is the design work you did with your illustrations. Very nice!
Art of the Networked Practice

“The third space network is an internet broadcast channel for live media arts and creative dialogues, in terms of broadcasting and bringing a global audience to creative dialogue, performance and other forms of activities.” – Randall Packer on the third space network.
Communication is a vital aspect of current society, especially with the Read more →

The notion of leeches, the internet and the online users draws inexplicable connection as they subsist on one another. Also, one additional reference drawn could be: is there a possibility of wordplay when they make use of leeches as part of the performance? Could it altogether be a true reflection of the impact of technology and social media? The conception that we are over-reliant on mechanization as it leeches our time away on mindless scrolling.I had not thought about the relationship between the leeches and our parasitic relationship to the Internet, but I think this was an incredible point, even if it wasn't the intention of the artist. We are reliant on communications, each and every day, and this reliance creates a dependency that can in fact cause "bleeding," at least in a metaphorical sense. Perhaps this may have been an opportunity to offset this observation with the concept of social broadcasting, which in effect, when used for critical and artistic purposes sheds light on our Internet condition. I thought your analysis of Annie Abrahams' work beautifully described how the artist might attempt to resolve this condition: by creating a space where the entanglements can become an aesthetic experience, a thing of beauty. This perhaps describes the unique differences between the two performances: igaies was, as described by the performers, a dystopic view of the Internet condition, whereas Abrahams was a more utopic rendering, at least in my opinion, in that she attempted to create a harmonious space despite the technological and geographical separation. This is a very fine essay indeed!
Virtual Insanity


[On Social Broadcasting: A Communications Revolution]
|| During the Art of the Networked Practice 3-day (or night) symposium that took place from 29th-31st March 2018, I got to listen to very insightful speakers and witness before my very eyes how far art has grew simultaneously with technology. It is amazing to think how unfathomable all of these works would have been Read more →

To have the ‘Third Space’ in co-existence and seen in totality with the local and remote spaces would be to also accept the faults that comes with it, just like how we do not act in a perfectly rehearsed manner in real life, for that would be way too unnatural...You are absolutely right: to accept the faults of our online existence is to embrace it, understand it, augment it, particularly for those of us who are artists and designers thinking about creative interactive spaces on the Internet. I also really appreciate your conclusion, in which you stated how we need to understand the various real and virtual spaces we inhabit, and as I always trying to teach my students, understand how to balance these worlds so they can be more harmonious and expressive as a third space environment. If we don't do this, we will forever be victims of our online interactions, rather than having a critical understanding.
Social Broadcasting is amazing: gLobAL SyMp0siUm


“Social Broadcasting: A Communications Revolution,” the shift from one-to-many to many-to-many forms of live performance and creative dialogue. Social Broadcasting: An Unfinished Communications Revolution.
The three day symposium, titled ‘Art Of The Networked Practice’, involves critique and analysis of keynotes, live performances, and global roundtable discussions, all broadcasted live on Adobe Connect. They involve various performers and artists who collaborate together to create Read more →

[EI] Symposium Hyperessay

Introduction
In this hyperessay, I will be highlighting the segments of the symposium that stood out the most to me, namely Annie Abraham’s performance ‘Online Ensemble – Entanglement Training’ and two of Blast Theory’s works, ‘Kidnapped’ and ‘My One Demand’. All the works that will be mentioned have one thing in common – they encompassed the concept of DIWO Read more →

A Whole New World


Throughout the semester our Experimental Interaction class has dabbled in a concept known as the Third Space through media like Adobe Connect, Facebook, and videos. We have also been introduced to different artists and artworks that have further expanded our knowledge of the affect and use of the Third Space in Blast Theory, Furtherfield, connecting a boundaries, and creating a Read more →

Angry Women: A Research Critique


Description
Angry Women, the brainchild of Dutch artist Annie Abrahams, is a series consisting of five videos. The different videos are called ‘takes’.
In Takes 1 and 2, 12 women (24 in total) express their anger from home, in front of their webcams. Their feeds are combined into a single video projection. With no fixed duration for the performance, it Read more →
Travel Easy


Micro-Project 9
So we were asked to make a video for our alter ego. Mine is kind of a wizard of some sort, the detail are ‘hush hush’ so we are not allowed to talk about it. So this video is about my alter ego travelling home every few minutes because it is that easy to do what ever it is Read more →