Theatre in Cyberspace

Optional task: In your groups prepare a short (6-10 minute) performance using one
of the techniques and ideas included in Chapter 20: Theatre in
Cyberspace, Digital Performance, Steve Dixon.


 Other Material

 Second Life

Second Life affair leads to real life divorce (2008)

Whatever happened to Second Life? (2010)

How to make money in Second Life (2012)

Other confusions with real-life:
Blair Witch Project
Catfish


Katharine Norman 'Window'

John Cage:
"I love sounds, just as they are, and I have not need for them to be anything 
more than what they are.  I don't want them to be psychological, I don't want a 
sound to pretend to be a bucket, or that it's the President, or that it's in 
love with another sound.  I just want it to be a sound."


Michael Joyce Afternoon, 1987 Made with Storyspace

A demo version: http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmaf/hypertext/aft/index.
html


Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), 1960: "developing
mathematically determined techniques of generating poems and stories
without the benefit of computers"

They adopted both methodical and random techniques, including rolling
dice to choose words, writing a novel without the letter 'e' and using
Jean Lesure's technique (N+7) of replacing each noun with the seventh
nooung following it in a specified dictionary.

http://www.nous.org.uk/oulipo.html

http://rhoadley.net/comp/haiku/index.php


Chatterbots:

Turing Test

http://nlp-addiction.com/chatbot/

Eliza

Julia http://www.lazytd.com/lti/julia/

http://www.robochatchallenge.com/

http://www.mitsuku.com/



Use of IRC (internet relay chat)

Hamnet players Plaintext players

MOO (MUD, object oriented)


It is recommended that you consider using Google Docs as the basis for
such a performance.