This document discusses various topics related to electronic media and live performance including: 1) Definitions of performance and criteria, as well as discussions of art, history, theory, and identity. 2) Discussions of media, including art, history, and theory. 3) The concept of praxis and how it relates to telepresence, embodiment, actuality, and interactive realism. 4) A discussion of language and phenomenology based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

1. ELECTRONIC MEDIA & LIVE PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE : DEFINITIONS + Criteria, art, history, theory, identity, ONTOLOGY
MEDIA : art, history, theory, EPISTEMOLOGY
PRAXIS : TELEPRESENCE, EMBODIMENT, ACTUALITY + INTERACTIVE REALISM
LANGUAGE : See Heidegger > > > > > > > > >
Heidegger asserts that
Live TV & Awards Season
Peformance-based Video
phenomena can be grasped
in and for themselves in immediate perception.
Pre-Recorded VideoTape Trials
THE FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE is to reveal what phenomena show.
EDM, Rock, Pop, & Jazz
However language has a different Being from the phenomena
it describes, so the danger is that language will only
'appear' to tell us what the phenomena is.
Instant Replay + Goal-Line Technology
Multimedia Performance
Dance on Camera
Virtual Communities / Environments:
MMORPGs, MUVEs, ICTs,
Networked Performances
Performance of Self
Cyborgs, wearable tech, + AI
Mind Uploading, Reanimation & Life Extension
LARPing , COSPLAY, + DISNEY on ICE
EMLP > OVERVIEW
In other words, the inherent danger
of describing phenomena in language
is that the Being of language
(because it is different from the Being of phenomena)
can effectively cover up
the Being of phenomena.

2. Early training in theater and dance, performance experience 1978-1999
STAC > TIAA-CREF > INSIDE
MA in Media Studies / 3rd World Newsreel
Award winning performing arts journalist/critic/editor since 1996
10 year term on New York Dance & Performance Award committee (2002-2012)
10 years teaching arts criticism in NAHYP recognized program
15 years producing, marketing, mediatizing dance company
Developed EMLP in 2000 / online first 9 years
Extensive knowledge and network of relationships in performing arts
NPAC Technology Guest Curator
Panelist, moderator, agitator - Movement Research, TCG, CMJ
Access to array of exceptional breadth and depth of performances
including BAM, 3LD, HERE Arts Center, NYLA, Joyce Theater, BAC, BAX,
The Kitchen, Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, IronDale,
MoMA, New Museum, Roulette, EYEBEAM Gallery, FIAF, Japan Society,
La Mama, NYTW, Lincoln Center, Broadway, Off Broadway, The Public
Theater, Off-off-off Broadway, Site Specific performances, Electric Daisy
Festival, MSG, Barclays, Beacon, Webster Hall, Terminal 5, Joe’s Pub,
Bowery Ballroom, Highline Ballroom, The Apollo, Irving Plaza, Mercury
Lounge, Music Hall, Village Vanguard, Bluenote, Brooklyn Lyceum, The
Whitney Museum, PERFORMA, PS122, Abrons Arts Center, NJPAC,
Jamaica PAC, Snug Harbor, as well as many festivals, free outdoor
events, and performance installations.
EMLP > CRED

3. HISTORY
Avant-garde, futurism, 20th Century phenomenon ... Sony Portapak ...Early adopters
INTERNET / WWW
Performance collaboration and distribution medium.
Virtual performance of the self: MUDs, MOOs, VR
“Theater is created not only by those who consciously use computer
networks for theatrical events, but also by billions of ordinary individuals
who use the World Wide Web.” [p3]
DIGITAL PERFORMANCES = All works where COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY plays a KEY role in:
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Content
Techniques
Aesthetics
Delivery Forms
Interactive
Technology Versus Content... > Antidote to techno fetishistic determinism and the Lev Manovich gang
UTOPIA / DYSTOPIA / >>>>> HETEROTOPIA (See Downes) + feminism, + phenomenology
ARTISTS: Merce, DumbType, Troika Ranch, Stelarc, Survival Research Labs, Eduardo Kac, The Builders Association,
[3LD http://bit.ly/1hTur5U ] Surveillance Camera Players, Mr Bungle cyber-rape, Theater in Cyberspace, VideoGames as
theater, [Annie Dorsen http://bit.ly/L7l2d7 ], [Lynn Hershman Leeson http://bit.ly/1hTtRVN ]
The Body / The Rhetoric of disembodiment and virtual bodies (See Coleman)
Via Negativa / Via Positiva / Trends & Cycles
EMLP > DIXON 1

4. How does media saturation impact audience expectations for the live?
BROADWAY DISNEYFICATION
JOAN JONAS
PRVT & LEGAL MEDIA
BUILDERS ASSOCIATION
BILL T. JONES with
PAUL KAISER & SHELLY ESHKAR (OpenEndedGroup)
SOPHIE CALLE
EMLP > AUSLANDER 1
LIP SYNC
COSPLAY
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

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RYOJI IKEDA
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BEYONCE 2014
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KENDRICK LAMAR et al
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DAFT PUNK et al
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EMLP > SCREENINGS 1
ROBOT QUARTET
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BIG DOG
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STREET w/a VIEW http://bit.ly/1aDqFvo
PRANAV MISTRY
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