Taxonomies

The author uses taxonomication in order to create a framework to diagramize the different variables of interactive performances. Diagrams show the possible connections between different elements and makes it possible to break into steps. The article is a good source to learn about the media usage with key terms in order to distinguish the purpose of different channels

“For example, we might chart the array of interactions associated with a single dramatic function, such as dramatic media or coextensive media; or, alternatively, we may sort the interactions according to time and space and treat dramatic function as a subsidiary variable. The taxonomy is entirely nonhierarchical. No combination of variables is more fundamental than any other, and none of the variables or perspectives is privileged.” (pp. 123)

The taxonomy provides a clarification to finalize the endless possibilities of interaction. Therefore, it is possible to define the hierarchy of variables, in order to break the work into steps. Also the role of the audience (and performer) within the work can be defined in various ways.

Use of media as an autonomous object or instrument is a choice of the designer. Being aware of the distinction between the channels and consideration of time and space brings an advanced level of consciousness to work.

SVRPVRPSV cycles

Resources/  Scores/ Valuaction/ Performance

The fact of understanding many activities and everyday components of our lives as a set of Scores, to me is a curious possibility.  From our shopping lists to class schedules, to bar menus, phone contacts and directions on Google maps, the cues that drive the direction of our daily processes can be seen and triggered as cue-based instances.  As if we were playing the visuals of our daily performances controlled by the resources of our body-driving decisions.  I agree that all parts of the process constantly interact having no specific order.  How else would art creation happen if not?  There are no specific rules for this.  At least on my opinion.

RSVP

Resources: human& physical resources and their motivation& aims.
Scores: process leading to the performance. Plan. Code.
Valuaction: analyzes the results of action and possible selectivity& decisions. Action/decision oriented. Feedback.
Performance: resultant of sources and is the “style” of the process.

I liked thinking of the scores as “symbolizations of processes which extend over time.”
Scores/Process derive essential qualities from a deep involvement in activity. Scores communicate process, making it visible.
Feedback. Analysis is needed before, during, and after for growth and change.

ICEBERG!! This concept is important to me. How do we read the bottom of the ice berg in works (performance/art). “9/10 invisible but vital to achievement”

Dichotomy between score/performance has been on my mind and in my work for a while. Still figuring it out, maybe it’s not a dichotomy, but simply plan/instance – still, there is so much embedded in the instance of performance and all that has proceeded.
“human communications – including values and decisions as well as performance – could be accounted for in process”

Scores – it’s about what the score controls and what is left to chance; what is determinate and left indeterminate / variables of foreseen and unforeseeable events; and to the feedback process which initiates a new score.
Scores are ways of symbolizing reality — of communicating experience through devices other than the experience itself.

first score, then performance – inextricably interrelated

Space / Time / Present / Future
Inner and Outer Motivational Worlds

“When the word as a scoring device becomes a generator of feedback between people rather than an ordering or injunctive mechanism” “Vast new areas of understanding open up…”
“Valuaction in the cycle is operating to the exclusion of the score itself. New understandings of how “active listening procedures” and “congruent sending messages” can “open up” dialogue are at the core of the new view of words as communicative rather than controlling devices.” (emphasis mine)

Ongoingness *relationship to the future
-Multiplicity of input as our guides.

“The established scoring techniques determine what the limits of the art form can be.”