Hello,
Please read the article attached,Is there love in the telematic embrace? by Roy Ascott, and write a response to it in one page, 1.5 spaced. I have provided my writing style, please try to mimic my writing. The written responses prompt is provided below, make sure to cite the pages that support the paragraphs:
Written response three short paragraphs :
– an introduction providing an overview of the text;
– a paragraph explaining the main argument/point of the text;
– and a final (short) paragraph explaining why is this of relevance of the course’s central questions.
The courses description that has the central questions (to answer the last paragraph):
Course Description: How can artistic online collaboration and performance be used to close gaps in space, time, and in physical and cultural distance? How can the internet be an effective medium for multidisciplinary intercultural artistic expression? The current pandemic has created a strong reemergence of online performances. The recent explosion of freely-available content in social media platforms (literally) from around the world has created an unprecedented opportunity to (re)evaluate online performance as a medium and as a means for intercultural artistic collaboration. In this course we will address live online performance and will explore its possibilities for intercultural artistic collaboration. This will be achieved by creating a series of live online performances, by viewing similar work by other artists, through seminal readings in the field, and talks by selected guests.
Expanded Course Description: Telematic performance, a live performance where artists perform together connected by telecommunication technologies, has been consistently around since the 1980s. Initially through the use of video conferencing technologies, and later using the internet, this performance medium has raised pertinent questions about presence, proximity, and artistic expression and collaboration by people connected remotely. The advent of fast internet connections by the turn of the 21st century stimulated experimentation and scholarly research around the internet as a performance medium, and several technologies, commercial or not, were produced and developed to facilitate real-time interaction using video and audio (e.g. Skype) or real-time music performance (e.g. jacktrip). The generalization of the availability of high-speed internet connections around planet in the past 20 years has made these technologies available to anyone, and the use of remote audiovisual connection technologies are now widespread and part of everyone’s lives.
The current pandemic has all of a sudden created a strong reemergence of online performances. Different types of performance range from (1) re-broadcasts of past performances at a venue to (2) live streams of concerts; or (3) from “live” performances where each artist records their part on a clip in a video mosaic, to (4) real-time performances with all the participants performing using peer-to-peer connections over a high-speed network. The increase in network speed and bandwidth now allows for performers in developing countries, like Ethiopia or Tanzania,
to broadcast performances and participate in an ever-increasing intercultural melange that is now easily accessed synchronous or asynchronously on YouTube or Facebook. Another important question arises: Are we up for something new and revolutionary or are we replicating models from the past in a different format?
The recent explosion of content in social media platforms in the above-mentioned categories and from around the world has created an unprecedented opportunity to (re)evaluate online performance as a medium possessing its own expressive characteristics and understand its relationship to the more conventional types of performance. It creates a unique opportunity to get a deeper perspective over how artists, producers, and event organizers can use this as means to expand their activity. Finally, this is also an unprecedented opportunity to speculate about if there are specific types of performance that are proper to this medium, and how this medium can pave a way for intercultural artistic collaboration.
During the semester, we will engage on a critical overview about the internet as a performance medium in multiple perspectives: 1- by watching different types of online performance; 2- by reading some texts that reflect on online performance; 3- by learning and using current technologies for real-time audiovisual communication over the network; 4- by creating real-time distributed performances. Several guests will be brought to class to discuss particular aspects pertaining audience engagement, development of technology, and long-distance and intercultural jamming.
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