Skype and Video Performance: How Good to See You!
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Intimate TV: Webcamming & Social Life-logging In the Surveillant-Sousveillant Space
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- Skype and Video Performance: How Good to See You!
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Panel: Intimate TV: Webcamming & Social Life-logging In the Surveillant-Sousveillant Space
This paper explores some potential uses of Skype in videoperformance practices. Skype embodies the paradoxes of screen-mediated videoperformance and screen-mediated communication with its illusion of transparency and immediacy, its distance between camera and image on screen, performed eye contact, and effective relational performativity. Starting from the documentation of an experiment conducted during a weeklong residency in Colchester, UK, I will examine some relational aspects of Skype, moving between straightforward one-to-one communication, and live and recorded performances.