Re: [-empyre-] Re: emergent multi narratives

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 10:36 +0100 26/6/02, K wrote:
> 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?

i think this is an important distinction and one that was raised 
earlier. without providing enough contexts about what is going on it 
is hard to know.

i find this an issue with the vogs *all* the time. people are so 
quicktime and interactive video illiterate that they don't actually 
know what's happening. for instance the common response to the vog at
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/5.2002/nordicsky.html
is that you can do it in any editing program.

in other words people don't just 'see' that each text track is *only* 
a string of text (so i could vary the font in response to user 
events) and so depending on where you mouse you can toggle *every* 
text track (there are 9 of them) on or off. each one is an 
independent object if you like.

gets frustrating. :) (as you described in the experience of the 
performance work)

cheers
adrian miles
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