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Laszlo Maholo-Nagly’s Theater of Totality, and tactics employed therein for developing audience interactivity
Madame Butterfly by Moholy-Nagy (1931)
- “Abstract” performances allow the audience to be involved not only physically,
- but also emotionally and intellectually. Determining the meaning of the play is
- often a matter of personal interpretation.
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Happening
a live, multimedia artistic event that incorporates audience participation
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An intermedium like a happening is:
a new form of communication and a new tool of artistic production that lies somewhere between existing categories for artistic media.
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The Happening should cause us to:
- question why there are distinctions between the objects and experiences and media of our daily life, and those that have traditionally been considered the objects,
- experiences, and media of high culture, and to strive to eliminate them distinction between the two.
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John Cage’s Water Walk and the use of popular media in Happenings
Practitioners of “happenings” strove to integrate popular technology such as television, and envisioned a future where computers, too, would be used as an artistic medium,able to create an interactive relationship between artist and audience
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Original uses of computers
early computers were primarily being used by government, industry, and the academic fields of science and mathematics to process data and conduct complex calculations
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Main thesis of JCR Licklider’s, Man-Computer Symbiosis
- JCR Licklider and Man-Computer Symbiosis: the dialogue between man and machine could lead
- to results beyond what either could achieve individually…even in the realm of art
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Benefits of Alan Kay’s G.U.I.
Graphic User Interface intuitive, easy-to-use interface based on the dynamics of human perception that read images as symbols
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Roy Ascott: what is telematic art and why is it better than earlier forms of media
- Computer-mediated communications
- networking involving telephone, cable, and satellite links between geographically-dispersed users, who are interfaced to one another using computers and computer software that hooks them up and into this global net.
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Roy Ascott’s Aspects of Gaia – content and function
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