Electronic Lit and Online Performance Art

Ann Hirsch as Caroline Please answer the following questions in a 1-2 page concept proposal. The proposal should be typed, double-spaced, and follow standard paragraph formatting. Use complete sentences throughout. 1) What is the main purpose of your performance? Is it a meta performance that reflects on the nature of the Internet or online performance itself? Is it cultural criticism or cultural commentary? Does your performance reference other YouTube sub-genres such as music videos or how-to videos or viral challenges? What do you want viewers to experience when watching it, and to take away from it? 2) Describe your persona in one-two sentences. Who are they? What relationship do they have to you and your own personality, if any? What interests you about performing as this persona? 3) Give the backstory of your persona. You can describe what major life events have happened to them, as well as anything that they like that might tell us about them. For example: what is th...

A VERY SHORT Message from Professor Durbin Unit Introduction: Performance Art and the Internet This unit, you will be introduced to artists who have made notable performance works on the Internet. Using websites such as YouTube or other streaming sites to reach an audience of hundreds, if not thousands, of viewers, these artists perform in public, often sharing their personal lives with strangers, opening themselves up for empathy and ridicule. Others took on personas and created avatars, all with the goal of reaching an audience beyond the normal art gallery-going crowd. (Of course, performance art intended to reach beyond an art crowd has been around for a long time, with notable performances including Yayoi Kusama's 1960s happenings in Central Park and the streets of New York City, where she frolicked with naked people she painted in polka-dots to protest the Vietnam war (see image below); John Lennon's and Yoko Ono's Bed-In ; and more ). Note ...

1) Explain the concept of the project without asking the writer what it is about. What platform or platforms are they taking material from? (Ex. Reddit, FB, etc). 2) How successfully does the project set up its central concerns and what are those concerns? What ideas is the writer exploring? 3) How does context matter in the piece? By taking this specific material off of a certain platform, what questions and ideas will the reader encounter? How will the reader see the platform differently? For example, Sophia Le Fraga's piece caused the reader to think about how public grieving has changed due to Facebook. 4) How might the writer lay out their poems on the page and make use of white space to achieve their goals? 5) Are there any collage tactics they might employ to make interesting use of the language? (Splicing material, not using whole passages, stitching together several people's posts, etc). 6) Who is the potential audience for the piece? What type of engagement...

Hi everyone, In order to best facilitate our workshop and lab on Tuesday, please bring the following with you: 1) Two printed copies of your concept for the Collage Poem Project. This should be 1 full page, typed and double-spaced, and should directly answer the majority of the questions I posted on the Experiment #3 prompt. (So at least 10 of these questions). 2) An additional page, which includes a sample of the text you plan to appropriate. This sample should be at least a page long, single-spaced. Feel free to print this on the back of the proposal page. Please note that you are bringing two copies so that I can collect one for my records and to give you credit for having done the work in advance of our workshop and lab. If you are planning to do the emoji project, you do not need to do this proposal, but you do need to come having your partner (from our class) selected and be ready to write your emoji poems together. Best, Prof D