We move from classic concepts of performance

            (from the specator/theoretical point of view)

to the engaged, participatory, customizable, and dynamic performance spaces availed by pervasive digital technologies—which have given us the Internet as well as Cyberspace

We’ll unpack these distinctions in a couple of weeks with Danny Downes’ Interactive Realism, and directly address our own involvement and experience with pervasive social and mobile technologies via Beth Coleman’s Hello Avatar!

What is Virtual? What is Real? What is Actual?

[Reality / identity are socially constructed but also technologically constructed.]

Technological determinism is a giant spaghetti monster, and creationism is socially constructed.

  Network culture and the shift from postmodern representational concerns to presentational ones—and self-referential ones: MATRIX plus a sh*tload of performance [art] meets webcam:

  “A BREAKDOWN BETWEEN PERFORMANCE & LIFE

  “Instead of immediate, lived experience, the contemporary subject relies on the immediated real, a condition in which mediation is a given and life becomes a form of performance, constantly lived in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback” (Varnelis) 

[Hasn’t this always been the case?]

  We Live in Public / YouTube, 4chan, Xtube, NSFW, Chatroulette,

Justin.TV suicide

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4071805.stm

http://english.pravda.ru/history/31-03-2008/104728-suicide_clubs-0/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhCH9mt0Pow&feature=fvwrel

IMMERSION

Haptic technologies and gesture-based computing

 Duke Immersive Virtual Environment

  http://vimeo.com/26047677 REAL 3D

  GAMES and WAR

http://www.thewip.net/contributors/2009/05/remote_warfare_radically_chang.html

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/26/142781012/war-by-remote-control-drones-make-it-easy

  “It is possible to over control the aircraft or to lose your situational awareness.”

  http://books.google.com/books/about/Virtual_War.html?id=LJuMweris0QC

  WHAT I LEARNED IN THE REAL WORLD AS AN AVATAR

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130305051047-21564708-what-i-learned-about-the-real-world-as-an-avatar?trk=mp-details-rr-rmpost

  YOUR AVATAR CAN INFLUENCE YOUR REAL WORLD BEHAVIOR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuOphOwjIDM&feature=youtu.be

  more: http://www.good.is/posts/maybe-your-avatar-controls-you

OCULUS RIFT

http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2013/01/11/will-oculus-rift-be-the-coolest-gadget-ever-an-interview-with-creator-palmer-luckey/?utm_campaign=techtwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Using Oculus Rift To Swap Your Gender

http://digg.com/video/using-oculus-rift-to-swap-your-gender 

Video Game Developer Tries to Recreate the Autistic’s World

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/03/14/video-game-developer-tries-to-recreate-the-autistics-world/

VIRTUAL SMITHSONIAN

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vtp/1-desktop/

(see also virtual Sistine chapel)

  IMMERSIVE JOURNALISM

http://oculusrift-blog.com/immersive-journalism/2243/

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3018099/put-on-a-helmet-and-youre-in-the-story-why-virtual-reality-journalism-is-the-future

  http://vimeo.com/27344103