We should probably begin with a more general playspace, not linked to a particular section. We can create new pages linked from this one, once we begin to add more stuff, and link it back to other sections.
Posted at Dec 07/2005 11:32PM:
Seeta Peña Gangadharan:
A few leading questions to kick off the play space…
What is the relationship between scripted spaces and infrastructure? Klein’s early examples seem to make more literal connections between infrastructure, power, and architected-sculptural scripted spaces. But as we’ve discussed (online and off)… his history becomes looser and looser as he moves into musings on scripted spaces and special effects of the present day. How does Bowker’s discussion of infrastructure impinge on Klein’s historical claims?
Auslander notes the uniqueness of the television medium, while skipping over how other media before the invention of television may have challenged notions of liveness. By contrast, Klein treats several media, suggesting that all media can act as scripted space with special effects. Apart from the fact that both seem historically shortsighted, does one position fare better than the other?
Is the authentic experience of scripted spaces basically created by the auteur? Is that power (of the author) retained as new technologies create the possibility for co-production in current day scripted spaces?
Is the experience of scripted space built upon historically-dependent notions of the “here-and-now”? Or has the liveness of scripted spaces remained the same over the four fifty years that Klein reviews?
Posted at Jan 17/2006 10:19AM:
Mrs. Spon: Still wondering about presence. What it means. Seem to remember that our conversation at one point steered towards something like flow. An authentic emotional response constitutes real presence. I get this. Then I remember how these flow states seem to be about bodily experience, how quiet my thoughts can be. A memory: I used to go rock hiking (not climbing, more hiking through rocky sites) with a friend, we called her Spiderwoman, because she was fearless, graceful, she bounded and jumped without a hint of hesitation. We were shamed, bumbling behind her, and then I just stopped thinking and began to follow, and it was surreal, because I wasn't there, my body was, and this, this was an authentic experience, I was present, except perhaps that I wasn't really. Anyway, I'm wondering also at the Gorillaz concert, still, this notion of the emotional response to the live event, they probably had a screen somewhere, they probably instructed the crowd to pretend they were at a concert, although of course they were at a concert, and the crowd probably started yelling and dancing and screaming, and the Gorillaz songs are really cool, so what happens when the energy becomes like that of any other concert, when it becomes another concert, except of course that the band isn't there. Realize this is rather trite, trying to find inconsistencies in definitions. Had a thought recently. Nope it's gone. Oh well.
Posted at Jan 17/2006 07:28PM:
Meg: I'm supposed to be working on the playspace -- it's coming soon!
Posted at Feb 08/2006 06:38PM:
Anthony F. Blunt: So, interestingly enough, Gorillaz opened the Grammys with yet another live/non-live performance. So I guess it's not just the MTV crowd anymore... although interestingly enough, they also dumped Madonna in there to keep things, I don't know, kosher? I think I'm going to find out whether they play live, because I'm fascinated by this. I shall soon report from the front lines, if I can.
