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The Online World

Elizabeth Quek

Thursday, Apr 05, 2018 - 01:14:26 am

@ A blog for Liz

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 →

Categories: Micro-Project
Elizabeth, you have raised so many fascinating and important ideas in your Hyperessay about the Symposium. In the opening section you discussed how despite there were technical difficulties, they were more or less accepted as part of the nature of communications technology. Yes, you can certainly refer to this as glitch, as well as a recognition of our modern day experience in the third space and on the Internet. Then of course, Annie Abrahams made an entire work out of these "entanglements" as a negotiation of performers communicating together from far away distant places. I particularly liked your discussion of Uncle Roy All Around You, where, the audience is put into the position of having to navigate and solve a possible that is highly impacted by communications and the concept of social broadcasting. My main comment is that the essay could have addressed social broadcasting as the main theme of the symposium. How did both Annie Abrahams and Matt Adams stretch the possibilities of the communications experience to create a more social experience, a more DIWO experience. Overall, you captured many excellent ideas and observations.

Are We in LOVE with the Connectedness?

Bella Dai

Thursday, Apr 05, 2018 - 01:12:18 am

@ belladaiyunlang

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 →

Categories: Research
Very interesting how you expressed your thoughts on interaction in such personal terms: how we engage emotionally in the third space. This has been one of the key ideas we have discussed this semester, how meaningful interaction can be achieved despite geographical separation. Wasn't this proved when you elected not to interact in the chat for Annie Abrahams' performance, and found yourself removed and disconnected. This implies that is direct interaction that creates the quality of engagement in any form of interactive art. Perhaps it would be interesting and helpful to your thesis to applied this to Blast Theory's work: how the players and performers engage in something dynamic, arresting, and challenging in both physical and virtual spaces. I didn't completely understand the reference to Media Burn and your related statement to put your foot through a mobile phone. Perhaps you are suggesting that there can be so much mediation we cease to have positive connectedness?

The Profound Art of Networked Practice

Su Xian

Wednesday, Apr 04, 2018 - 07:56:15 pm

@ Shu

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 →

Categories: Micro-Project | Research
Shu, this was a very highly developed discourse on the Symposium. Whereas there were a few comments that could use some refinement, I thought you made an excellent effort to address many important ideas and concepts that were addressed. I was particularly impressed by your critique of Blast Theory's Kidnap as a commentary on control. Here is one of your statements that I thought was very powerful:
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

Felicia

Wednesday, Apr 04, 2018 - 07:38:09 pm

@ f e l ❍

“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 →

Categories: Micro-Project
Excellent Felicia! This was a well constructed essay, and you touched on so many important points and made several very astute observations. I would like to point one out here:
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

Tan Yue Ling

Wednesday, Apr 04, 2018 - 03:36:20 pm

@ MoonlingGraphics

[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 →

Categories: Research
Yue Ling, this is a very comprehensive and well research study of not just the Symposium, but what we have been discussing all semester. Excellent! You touched all many important points and ideas: including social broadcasting as a powerful mechanism for bringing people, artists, and audiences together; as well as the ethical issues associated with our online lives. I particularly liked this statement:
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

ROS FARZANA

Wednesday, Apr 04, 2018 - 02:36:39 pm

@ Farz

“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 →

Categories: Research
Farz, I thought your description of the igaies performance in Chicago was especially revealing. I was impressed with the way you recognized just how malleable identity can be in the way that XXXtraPrincess used SnapChat filters or layers to alter themselves. Additionally, as you pointed out, how they were mediating their real physical selves by layering their virtual identities via their mobile phones. That was very well expressed. I also thought your description of Uncle Roy All Around You by Blast Theory was very well articulated. In particular, in the context of social broadcasting, you pointed out how the virtual and real audiences fed off of one another, actually needed one another, in order to find Uncle Roy. I like to see these kinds of connections made between concepts and their execution. Very well done!

[EI] Symposium Hyperessay

Francesca

Wednesday, Apr 04, 2018 - 10:07:34 am

@ Francesca

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 →

Categories: Micro-Project
Francesca, excellent paper and very well written and articulated. I thought your descriptions of Entanglements, Kidnap, and My One Demand were very detailed and revealing. Perhaps to tie these description into the overall theme of social broadcasting would have been helpful, but otherwise I thought you were very thoughtful and attentive to the works, which were not particularly easy to decipher. I am really glad to see you point out the interactive nature of the film in My One Demand, and the role of the audience. It was not unlike how the chat functioned during the Symposium, in which the performers also had access to the unfolding online discussion, whether they reacted or not. I'm sure in the case of Entanglements it did in fact have an impact and could very well have altered the nature of the performance in real-time. A very thoughtful essay.

A Whole New World

Cecilia HyunJae Cho

Monday, Apr 02, 2018 - 10:47:16 pm

@ C.C.H.J.CHO

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 →

Categories: Research
Cecelia, you covered the Symposium very well, with many important observations about the work and ideas presented. I thought in particular your description of Annie Abrahams' was well crafted and observant. I liked the way you stepped us through the various sections of the piece. It was, with its protocols, very similar to the workshop that Annie did with us, it might have been helpful to point that out. In regards to Maria X's keynote, perhaps you might have pointed out some of the specific pieces she discussed, although I thought the quote you chose from her talk was quite relevant to your overall critique of the Symposium. In sum, you covered the detail of the Symposium, but perhaps could have addressed some of the larger themes, such as social broadcasting: how do you think the various works tied into our study of social broadcasting, DIWO, and other forms of collaborative social interaction that we have discussing this semester? This might be something to consider in your Symposium Hyperessay.

Angry Women: A Research Critique

Bala

Saturday, Mar 24, 2018 - 04:36:34 am

@ Bala's OSS

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 →

Categories: Research
Excellent work Bala!!
Thanks Mr Packer!!! :-)

Travel Easy

Elizabeth Quek

Thursday, Mar 22, 2018 - 11:36:29 pm

@ A blog for Liz

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 →

Categories: Micro-Project
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