Cyberformance in the Third Space: A Conversation with Helen Varley Jamieson

By: Randall Packer |

Since 1999, pioneering cyberformance artist Helen Varley Jamieson has been exploring the Internet as a space for live performance and social engagement. In Cyberformance in the Third Space: A Conversation with Helen Varley Jamieson, now published on the Furtherfield Website, we discuss the evolution of her work, as well as her new cyberformance, “we r now[here].” The work debuts for the opening reception of the Art of the Networked Practice | Online Symposium (6pm – 8pm): a globally netcasted event in collaboration with Furtherfield.

The title and description of the work poetically articulate her thinking on networked space (third space) as a medium for online theatrical experimentation: “‘we r now[here]’ is about nowhere and somewhere: the ‘nowhere’ of the Internet becomes ‘now’ and ‘here’ through our virtual presence.”

“we r now[here]”will be performed by a student ensemble from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

(Special thanks to Annie Abrahams who provided the title for the work: “we r now[here],” and to Curt Cloninger who inspired it.)

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