TY - JOUR
T1 - Documenting mixed reality performance
T2 - the case of CloudPad
AU - Giannachi, Gabriella
AU - Lowood, Henry
AU - Worthey, Glen
AU - Price, Dominic
AU - Rowland, Duncan
AU - Benford, Steve
N1 - Funding Information:
We gracefully acknowledge the RCUK-funded Horizon digital economy research grant, EP/ G065802/1 and the AHRC-funded Riders Have Spoken project. We would like to thank Blast Theory and staff at the Ludwig Boltzman Institute Media.Art.Research, Katja Kwastek, Dieter Daniels and Ingrid Spoerl in particular, who facilitated the documentation of Rider Spoke in Linz, and our participants and volunteers who gave their time to make this documentation possible. We would also like to thank the staff and students at the San Francisco Art Institute, Stanford Libraries and St Jose State University for providing crucial feedback that informed the writing of this article. Many thanks also to Annet Dekker for drawing our attention to Suzanne Briet’s work, and to Luigi Giannachi for drawing our attention to mirror neurons in relation to performance.
Funding Information:
Rider Spoke was documented in September 2009 by a team comprising staff from the Universities of Exeter and Nottingham, as well as personnel from the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research in Linz. We were influenced by other hybrid approaches (Jones and Muller 2008, Depocas et al. 2003). We also drew from our own experience with the AHRC-funded Presence Project (2004–9), in which we used social media such as a wiki and the virtual world Second Life (http://presence.stanford.edu) to document user experiences of a number of artworks (Giannachi and Kaye 2011); and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded Creator Project (2008 – 10), in which we adopted the Digital Replay System (DRS). Developed by the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, DRS is an open software tool that has gained popularity with researchers in the social sciences by giving them the capability to synchronise and annotate different media for a prototype archive (Chamberlain et al. 2010). We also benefitted from the findings of the e-dance project (2007 – 9), which was jointly funded by AHRC, JISC and EPSRC, and conducted by colleagues from the Universities of Bedfordshire, Leeds, Manchester and Open University, which adopted access grid technologies for developing new approaches to choreographic composition involving the use of the Memetic toolkit for recording, replaying and annotating sessions in access grid. Finally, we worked in dialogue with artworks such as Lynn Hershman Leeson’s RAW/WAR feminist film archives (2010) and sosolimited’s interactive archival performances, which created stimulating relationships between original sets of events and their documentation, and between their encounter with and interpretation by contemporary audiences.
PY - 2012/12
Y1 - 2012/12
N2 - This article introduces an original documentation and archiving tool, CloudPad, that integrates 'cloud computing' into the annotation and synchronisation of mixed media resources. Through CloudPad users are able to view a documentation, edit a version of it, and record their own comments in response to it. Whether users may have created and/or experienced a particular work, or whether they may simply wish to consult a work's documentation, their journey through these records and annotations are subsumed into the work's documentation, thus augmenting the 'original' artwork's field of social engagement. Before discussing CloudPad in detail, we proceed to explain how recent debates in performance documentation influenced our methodology and development, and the general challenges of mixed reality documentation that CloudPad aims to address.
AB - This article introduces an original documentation and archiving tool, CloudPad, that integrates 'cloud computing' into the annotation and synchronisation of mixed media resources. Through CloudPad users are able to view a documentation, edit a version of it, and record their own comments in response to it. Whether users may have created and/or experienced a particular work, or whether they may simply wish to consult a work's documentation, their journey through these records and annotations are subsumed into the work's documentation, thus augmenting the 'original' artwork's field of social engagement. Before discussing CloudPad in detail, we proceed to explain how recent debates in performance documentation influenced our methodology and development, and the general challenges of mixed reality documentation that CloudPad aims to address.
KW - archiving
KW - cloud computing
KW - mixed reality
KW - performance documentation
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U2 - 10.1080/14626268.2012.656274
DO - 10.1080/14626268.2012.656274
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84871246430
SN - 1462-6268
VL - 23
SP - 159
EP - 175
JO - Digital Creativity
JF - Digital Creativity
IS - 3-4
ER -