Week 4

Week 4-

We began, adding to the blogs which we had created my own blog and an outlook on my thoughts and feeling can be found at:

http://katenicholas.blogspot.com/

I began looking at my peer’s blogs, and picked out three which I liked the content off:-

https://minerva.bathspa.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_8955_1 Performing girls.

https://minerva.bathspa.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_8955_1 Leigh

https://minerva.bathspa.ac.uk/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab=courses&url=/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_8955_1 Clem.

I picked on these three in particular as they all seemed to be addressing the idea of our module more clearly. They seemed to discuss relevant material and gave me something to think about.

After posting what I consider to be cool on my blog, which can be viewed by the link above, we began as a group of three to make a film about what is cool. We took the idea of what is cool, and instead of a statement changed it into a question what is cool??

After a discussion, we decide to have a short film, of one of the groups members smoking a cigarette, then raise the question to our audience weather it was cool or not to smoke!

The film was only about 60 seconds long; it was simple yet effective as it raised awareness of smoking. With the group formed we began discussing idea of what we would like to do for our performance, we said the task of individually

To finalize, we were asked not only to begin thinking of our performance but also define Performance with reference to Auslander, and Virtuality with reference to Novak. I came up with the following

Virtuality – Novak describes virtuality as three different concepts, space of the Platonic Ideal; the space of consciousness; and technologically constructed information space. According to Novak, reality is virtual as we can never anticipate the end result. He expressed how reality is the most plausible for us and virtuality goes beyond that, virtuality is like outer space; it goes above normal to achieve excellence.

Performance- A Performance is something which spectators observe, be it live or filmed. Auslander talks about performance in his book Liveness, performance in a mediated culture. He argues that live events, from, theatre to sport are ‘now themselves pale replicates of mass-media technologies,’ Everything and anything is a performance, even our own Facebook pages, they are a platform of what and how we want other to see in us. Performance is not only a term used to describe theatre. It goes a lot deeper than that. Performance happen everyday, we are just oblivious to them!

I began researching into different kind of performances, and came up with 5 very different types:
1. A Stage performance, be it a school nativity to a west end show.
2. A Rock Concert.
3. Personalized WebPages such as Facebook. My Space and BEBO.
4. YOU TUBE videos, even if is a group of friends on a night out.
5. A football match, the players, the spectators and the coaches are all performing.

I began to establish, how virtuality and performance can combine together. Virtuality widens the gateway to performance immensely with the technologies of virtuality performances can be created on another level.