Virtuality and Performance

Each week I have been baffled by the subject we have talked about. This subject has been the hardest for me as I did not fully understand the material we were looking at. Also as I was quite new to the internet in terms of websites and youtube i found it hard to catch up to the other students, unfortunately I also get bad headaches from staring at a computer for too long and as this lesson was based around a computer screen it made me dislike searching for endless material. I knew that this was all information that would come in handy in the future as the internet expanded especially as businesses become more technological so I decided to stick it out and see what I learn along the way. At the end of the course I still feel a dislike to computers and the internet but I do feel that I have become more able within my reseacrh abilitys and the way that the computer and internet work. If you click on the link 'My First Attempt at a Blog Page' I think you will see the progression I have made in this module, as my first blog shows how completely lost I was at the beginning of the module.

As the weeks progressed, I began to enjoy looking at theatre companies who use media within thier performances, The builders association was one that I really enjoyed researching into and also the Survaillance Camera Players. The Survaillance Camera Players perofrm infront of CCTV cameras meaning only the person survailling the tape will see it. It helps them promote thier political views of the government and CCTV watching our everymove. They create a social protest about the fact we are watched by video cameras everyday.

There were many performance groups which I feel make a good use of technology within performance professionally, also the adavance in technology helps within theatres to create more impressive perormances. Other types of performance on the internet are youtube videos, Youtube allows anyone to produce thier own film and share it with the world. This was something I took into consideration with my group project. The internet is enableing to become famous from the internet. Perez Hilton was a celeb gossip blogger in hollywood, now his is in magazines and becoming friends with the celeebs he slated on his site, all this making him famous himself.

Week by week we looked at more performance artist on the web, but the performers I was interested in were LIVE performers, this is way more interesting to me than the internet ever will be. The use of technology in performance is useful but searching live performances on a computer screen is not, I would rather watch these performances but to read about them I have to use the internet. The Essay we were assessed on helped me to look more at live perofmance in a virtual world and I felt writing this essay helped to understand what was going on more in the classroom. As I struggled to understand what we were talking about at the begining I felt I would have to work extra hard to gain an understanding of the subject. I honestly still feel unaware to some of the subjects discussed but I have a greater knowledge of what Virtaulity inPerformance is and how it can be achieved. I enjoyed learning about different types of performance and I feel that this subject has enabled me to gain new skills and a wider knowledge of what you can achieve in performance and on the internet. I know that there is much more for me to learn on this subject and this class has given me the tools to find out more. I do feel that my lack of skills at the begining of the semester made it hard for me to understand the work I was researching. The internet will always be a frustrating concept to me as I refuse to become inmmersed in the world of the virtual.