[-empyre-] whose "our systems"

[Johannes Birringer]

dear all

perhaps three concrete questions, as follow up:

-  asking Susan Kozel, regarding gendered location of the telematic performer and what space it is that is made-between?    .. in your chapter in CLOSER you also report on physical pain (contorting to virtual space), sex and violence in the   
   interface, and thus I wonder how you think back on it now, 20 years after that experience, and whether you would imagine space-making/extending differently today....

-  I heard from two friends this afternoon; one, Alan Sondheim, has worked extensively with avataric embodiments in virtual space, and I wondered how Alan conceives of particular and differentiated avatar-bodies, and whether their "bodies" 
   mattered to performance (in the writing surely, as far as I can tell)? do you "write" your avataric bodies and make music with them?

- also, a letter came from Chris Bishop who I believe is doing a project on Collaborative Virtual Environments for Distributed Performance (at Monash University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture), and it reported that he is interested in folks networkperforming especially when they live in remote areas (in Australia) and thus removed from one another or even from technocentric locations of the metropolitan areas;  he mentioned that he had some surprising experiences working with visual artists from Whyalla in South Australia and video artists from Germany, Finland, Thailand and UK -- what were the challenges, Chris?


respectfully,
Johannes Birrringer