_the beginning ...

The introduction to this blog was written by one of the students in our Performance and Technology Fall 2008 class, Evan Yu.  I really love his choice of the opening photo!

_to begin_ 

performance and technology is the fusion of a person's creative imaginations through an actual performance where others that surround him/her can be allowed to visualize the meanings behind the actions whether it can be in: every sound, every movie, every documentary, tv shows, etc... there's performance 

_ in the class_ we were given an idea of a unit that is within the coined term "media theatre" and we were to produce an "act" that would express our own ideology of that particular unit.

_ to give an example of what we did, my group had to pleasure of working on Surveillance Camera and the idea was to put those around us in a very uncomfortable position. we were trying to convey the idea of Big Brother and how it is used to infiltrate our own privacy. the performance comes from those that surround us and how they begin to act as though someone is watching them instead themselves being in their comfort zone.

_ Big Brother itself stands as the technology and our reaction to that technology

is the performance.

_ another performance is the use of music and our own reaction to the type of

music it is. whether it came from one country or another, the people there and the type

of character that person is will give off a different imagery of the what he believes his

work of music can bring to the people.

_ to give you more insight on what we are... (look at the above photo)

_ that is Stelarc and he is using attached machinery to his body as part of his performance.

- it just shows how much we are attached to the technological world that when a

a part of us is not attached, we feel naked. hence, the skin MAY represent the void

in our lives that we need to have a form of technology to become a part of us.

what do you think ?