Re: [-empyre-] networked_performance

[Pall Thayer <palli@pallit.lhi.is>]

Before seeing this mornings news I was all set to write a lengthy, happy 
response to this but now I'm angry and depressed and more convinced than 
ever that a war on Iraq is not a "war on terrorism".

Your understanding of what I said is point on, Helen. But perhaps I 
should clearify what I refer to on the one hand as a sensitive 
environment and a responsive one on the other. Yes, a responsive 
environment is also a sensitive environment but a sensitive one doesn't 
have to be responsive to the actual participant. I guess, the sensitive 
environment is always going to be responsive as well, but it doesn't 
necessarily have to respond to the person or people interacting with it.

Now I'm going to watch the news. Hopefully I'll be in a better mood 
later and write more.

Pall

Helen Thorington wrote:
> on 7/6/05 11:54 AM, Pall Thayer at palli@pallit.lhi.is wrote:
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> > At this point, I'm more interested in capturing "normal"
> > behaviour. So it's more about a sensitive environment rather than a
> > responsive environment. The work doesn't respond to whoever interacts
> > with it, it simply records or transmits the information to another
> > viewing public. This ties into some ideas I've been working with in
> > regards to abstraction for quite some time.
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> Pall, can you talk about this more.  I love the idea of a sensitive
> environment, although I'm pretty sure a responsive one could be sensitive as
> well.
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> As I read you, I might walk into a room, do something that triggers
> something else but never know it. In the meantime another audience is
> viewing the results of my unconscious behavior in the room ?..
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> Autodrawn is a bit like this, isn't it? While human interaction doesn¹t play
> a part and It¹s the computer that¹s ³performing as the intermediary of a
> live moment,²  i.e.,  the computer is playing artist in real time, sketching
> images seen on online webcams.  The computer is responding to the
> "unconscious" behavior of motorists on the autobahn.  And their behavior is
> being monitored and rendered for us, another audience.
>
> Or am I way off track?
>
> - Helen
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