[NetBehaviour] Trapped to Reveal - On webcam mediated communication and collaboration.

[netbehaviour]

Trapped to Reveal - On webcam mediated communication and collaboration.

By Annie Abrahams.

I am not a performer, I use performance to do research.
I am not a researcher, I use research in my performance pieces.
I am a performer who uses research as a medium.
I am a performer researching encounters.

"Texts by Sherry Turkle, Brad Troemel, Boris Groys, Jacques Rancière and 
Michael Goddard on Guattari and Berardi, that I have read recently, and 
an interview I had with Maria Chatzichristodoulou helped me to better 
understand my webcam performance practice. Besides being a tool to 
experiment with machine mediated collaboration and communication, these 
performances also reveal ordinary, vulnerable and messy aspects of human 
communication."

"When people started discussing, dreaming of and glorifying the 
advantages of Internet collaborations I was very sceptical. Experiences 
in the past with for instance the French collaborative website called 
lieudit.org (1998 - 2000) [1] showed me that it was very difficult to 
negotiate and overcome political and philosophical differences. In fact 
the advertisements for a lot of the social web devices made me angry, I 
felt vexed. Did nobody understand that collaboration using machines 
wasn’t easier, maybe not more difficult either, but simply different 
from ordinary face to face communication?"

more…
http://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/18236/18237