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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Performance at Brown University Interrupt
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:04:18 -0400 (EDT)
Performance at Brown University Interrupt Foofwa d'Imobilite, dance Alan Sondheim and Sandy Baldwin, Second Life avatar performance Azure Carter, song and camera http://www.alansondheim.org/ performance series - RIperform jpgs 216, 218, 220, 221, 230, 234, 236 2 hours of setup mishaps then running on a slower machine and line than expected. Foofwa dances/proscenium & somewhat in the round, Second Life projected behind him. Here doubled spaces and problematic: full round in Second Life projected on a screen, proscenium and partial round in real life, flattening the screen which is pushed further into the background by virtue of the architecture, So modalities of architecture, performance, and dance/behavior interact; the full depth of Second Life becomes more illustration than anything else, and the shallow depth of the proscenium becomes fecund, replete with possibilities, in the partial darkness. These are orders of the real and virtual, of dancing and engineering, which still clash in the new century; the entanglements will take decades to work out, as human beings adjust to the newest furious computation speeds tending towards more elaborate interfaces. The performance appears oddly barren in the photographs; with sound and audience, it was electrifying. To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22