Some notes

RSVP Cycles – Lawrence Halprin
Scores

• as symbolizations of process e.g. musical, grocery list, calendar, this book
• as method of making process visible
• can communicate processes over space-time
• Hope for socres as way of designing large-scale environments
• Must allow for feedback
• as potential communication device

Environment + dance-theater

• non-static
• process-oriented (not result-oriented)
• values present, but not demonstrable

Resources
Scores
Valueaction
Performance

Order can be any. e.g PRSV

Cycle works at two levels: self, group
– meant to be free–making processes visible

Danger: becoming goal-oriented… scores are non-utopian; they’re idealistic, hope-oriented

Score: system of symbols to convey/guide/control interactions between elements: space, time, rhythm, and their sequences, people and activities, and the combinations that result

An Arts Sciences, Engineering Educational Research Initiative for Experiential Media by Rikakis, Spanias, Sundaram, He (2006)

Summary: training approach f/ integrating computation & media in physical human experience

• driven by research problems
• based on interdisciplinary network
• research and application
• transdisciplinary training

Experiential Media: systems that integrate computation and digital media in physical media experience

Three trends in computation:

• novel embedded interfaces e.g. gesture, movement, voice, sketches, etc
• human e.g. computing communication at level of meaning (rather than level of information)
• participational knowledge creation and content e.g. generation frameworks

Research model 5 areas

• Sensing: human word & physical activity
• Perception and modeling
• Feedback
• Experiential construction
• Learning and knowledge

Expertise needed:

• sensing: engineers
• media communication & experiential construction: artists
• perception, cognition, learning: psychology & education experts

Arizona State University has Arts, Media, Engineering (AME) program

Application of this training-research: health, education, social communication, everyday living, culture, arts

Need new folks trained in this

The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction by Douglas Davis (1991-5)

No longer clear conceptual distinction between original and reproduction – both states are “fictions”

Not “virtual” — actually, virtual is “RR”: Realer Reality

The World’s First Collaborative Sentence ….

Digital reproduction is without degradation: always same/perfect

Empower imagination, not reason –> new tools e.g. printed word invented led hundreds of years later to Ulysses

Reader becomes author on internet –> information is decentralized

We can walk, think, feel virtual world same as human-made world

Deconstruction itself has its own value

When live performers leave the stage and there’s a “live feed” of them backstage, we are unsure whether it’s taped for live e.g. Blue Man Group

Status of first person is still valued

“poststructuralism” “postmodernism” “post-avant-garde” “appropriation”…

* aura resides “not in the thing itself but in the originality of the moment we see, hear, read, repeat, and revise” (386)