Sweet! Structures of Participation in Digital Culture online
Structures of Participation in Digital Culture (Karaganis, Joe, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007) is now available online: featuring chapters by Mimi Ito, T.L. Taylor, caps challenged danah boyd, Robert Nideffer, Doug Thomas, Tarleton Gillespie… in short, a fantastic collection of folks writing on games, social networks, “everyday cultural production,” and other sexy topics. And look– the Phaedrus is even back! Aw…
May 20, 2008
Invisible Theatre
INVISIBLE THEATRE – To be a citizen does not mean merely to live in society, but to transform it. If I transform the clay into a statue, I become a Sculptor; if I transform the stones into a house, I become an architect; if I transform our society into something better for us all, I become a citizen. INVISIBLE THEATRE is a direct intervention in society, on a precise theme of general interest, to provoke debate and to clarify the problem that must be solved. It shall never be violent since its aim is to reveal the violence that exists in society, and not to reproduce it. INVISIBLE THEATRE is a play (not a mere improvisation) that is played in a public space without informing anyone that it is a piece of theatre, previously rehearsed. INVISIBLE THEATRE is the penetration of fiction into reality and of reality into fiction, which helps us to see how much fiction exists in reality, and how much reality exists in fiction. Augusto Boal, Rio de Janeiro 2004
(via the International Theatre of the Oppressed Organization)
Why am I posting this? Lone Koefoed Hansen got me thinking about interactive art, intervention, social practice and visibility (also on that note: Quetzil E. Castañeda’s “The Invisible Theatre of Ethnography: Performative Principles of Fieldwork.” Is there a relationship here with public interactive performance?)
May 19, 2008
Documentary theatre: Import/Export
Interesting: as part of my documentary videogame research, I’ve come across some documentary theatre information. In particular, there is a Montreal group called Porte Parole, with an upcoming production called Import/Export.
“A documentary play grows out of an impulse to explore the boundaries of reality. Its text is found by documenting words that are spoken in the realm we call “life”, and then transferring them to the realm we call “art”. It is a play that reveals the artfulness of life.”
May 16, 2008
Kokoromi (one of) the Best
Montreal Mirror readers have voted Kokoromi the fifth best videogame company in Montreal! Not bad, considering we’re not a game company ;-) That ignoble honour would have to go to Polytron Systems Corp.
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