[-empyre-] Re: emergent multi narratives

[K <k@artificialstage.com>]

> RE: Jill "I'm busy reading about emergence theory, which has me completely
> hooked (I'm good at going very enthusiastic about new things I
> encounter ;) and seen from that perspective this would not be
> necessarily a bad thing at all, not a sin, not "only a product of a
> common cultural meme" but au contraire a lovely example of a
> self-organising system producing emergent knowledge."

Hey Jill, I agree, Emergence theory - by which I imagine you mean variants
on  Complexity and Complex Adaptive Systems motherlode stories, is really
productive  tool- especially useful for me to theorise practice as 
research, and
provides flexible schema for constructing and re-presenting multi-linear 
narratives
in performance/convergence media formats. Including mutiple narratives that
aren't necessarily linear; encompasses car crashes and dead ends, delays,
reversals,  loads of laybys and hard shoulders, and still have the motorway 
stories speeding on by.

Also Re: Adrian's comment about  balancing sophistication + pleasure + 
closure in
multi-narrative work -  - also consider the space for the pleasure of 
watching as distinct
from pleasure of immersion, which brings up boredom threshold again - how 
fascinating
is it watching other people play computer games?  What does the audience 
know - that's
a tricky one too. I just did a show across 3 stages: 
proximal/webcam/graphic-sonic chatroom
where the live proximal audience read everything as virtual - any real 
mistakes/breakdowns/
were re-incorporated into the spectator totality as part of the show. I 
complete mis-read
audience competencies, and knowledges. For the next performance,
I'm replacing the programme with map/diagram/matrices
of spatial relations & actions of distributed performers & multiple 
machines. Which could
also be a diagram or model for emergent entity.
Karla

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