RE: [-empyre-] networked_performance

["Sally Jane Norman" <S.J.Norman@newcastle.ac.uk>]

Funny the way your laptop having an after-performance drink conjures up
images of Vaucanson's duck!

Also amused by the slip of the digit that came up with Deux ex Machina
like a pas de Deus?

best

sjn 

>-----Original Message-----
>From: empyre-bounces@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au 
>[mailto:empyre-bounces@gamera.cofa.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
>Helen Varley Jamieson
>Sent: 13 July 2005 13:04
>To: soft_skinned_space
>Subject: RE: [-empyre-] networked_performance
>
>i'm also enjoying this thread, altho swamped with other work 
>so i'm afraid i'm not keeping up very well. i'll drop in some 
>random thoughts from a windswept outpost, on animism & reading 
>life into objects. in my own work with avatars (digital 
>puppets) i find the more visually simple they are, the more 
>scope they offer. the 3d human-like style is less interesting 
>to me. & i'm never alone when i'm on stage with my laptop; she 
>is as much a player in the performance as i am; we have long 
>warm-ups together & debrief over a drink afterwards.
>
>h : )
>
>>Dear empyricists, and special hello to Chris
>>
>>this thread is really stimulating - was weaving the 
>inevitable mekhane 
>>into a text a couple of weeks back when it cropped up here 
>like a Deux 
>>ex Machina - and now the animism thread.
>>
>>The archaic world of puppets - manipulated objects - and automats - 
>>self-moving objects - and all the hybrid entities that span the 
>>continuum between those two categories seems to me to offer useful 
>>insights into our notions of live/ness. Gaze as giver of life - le 
>>report de la vie, as we say in French.
>>
>>For me, it is this propensity to read life and live:li:ness 
>into things 
>>that connects the most ancient effigies and totems, to those strange 
>>creatures our prosthetised eyes are revealing in outer space
>>- Saturn's moons or the capsule that relates them to us - and at 
>>"non"human scales on earth, as in the shaping of nanomolecular 
>>surfaces. Mixes here of computational display and obdurately physical 
>>entities and terrain - as exemplified by our being able to follow 
>>Opportunity getting out of a rut on some distant planet.
>>
>>With thanks for the discussion and lively ideas
>>
>>best wishes
>>
>>sjn
>>
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