All are invited to 'attend' and participate!
| event #1 ....... Nov. 3 | "The 1970s: Discussion of the 'fluid epistemological building code, the cultural DNA underlying the construction of much of the epoch’s phenomena.'" |
| event #2 ....... Dec.1 | "Liveness in mediated performance." |
| event #3 ....... April 19 | "Roles of listener-sponsors in the Pacifica radio network." |
| event #4 ....... April 20 | "Virtual performance and archiving." |
| This series is sponsored by the Graduate
Program in Folklore and Folklife of the University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, USA), and is being supervised by a faculty member.
However, the series was initiated by and is being led by graduate
students -- in
Folklore and in various other disciplines, at Penn and at numerous
other
universities.
In each event, Penn graduate students will videoconference with a different partner. These will be two-party videoconferences over ISDN lines (not over the Internet); however, each event will be webcast live onto the Internet (please see the following paragraph for details). Each event will consist of at least one presentation, on related topics, from each side of the videoconference. Two components of each event will make this series quite
an experiment on social and technological levels: At present, we are discussing what the topics of the fall events will be, and who will be the videoconference partners and the e-mail respondents. We are a pool of 24 graduate students, with a pool of 9 or so possible topics (please see below). This project is not topic-driven: it is being driven by a community that has formed around a common goal: to explore and practice a new medium of communication together. If you are a university undergraduate, faculty, or staff member -- or even if you are unaffiliated with academia -- you are invited to join the listserv, and to observe and interact with the live webcasts; however, only graduate students can be on the series committee. The decision-making process is generally being done by consensus: any member of the series committee can make or block a proposal. If a proposal is not blocked by a committee member in a reasonable amount of time, it will pass and will be adopted by the group. Please join us! We are communicating via an e-mail listserv: To subscribe to this list, or for further information, please send an e-mail to the list manager. Please click here to see writings relating to videoconferencing in general, and to this series in particular. Thank you! - Eric Miller Below are lists of topics under consideration, and of committee members. *** possible topics: Issues in ethnomusicology (possibly relating to Caribbean
music). The concept of cultural translation. Folklore and interactive telecommunication -- The study of communities. What are ways in which communities come into being? How are they maintained and repaired? How and why do they die? Members of a Philadelphia rainbow gatheringcommunity are developing a garden/kitchen near the Puppet House that was closed down by the authorities during last summer's Republican presidential convention. One question is: how are members of this group relating with other people in the neighborhood? 2001: A Space Odyssey. How does the reality of 2001 compare to the movie? (Possibly for the spring semester.) Teaching with electronic media: What works? What problems are there, and how can they be compensated for? Performance via videoconference: Are performers and
audience members
at the two or more sites "live" to each other? Is it a single
event? *** Committee members (as of 10/24/00): Elizabeth Dougherty Laura Lohman Susan Kinnevy Tim Field John F. E. Drover Angelique van Berlo Gisele-Audrey Mills Andrew McGraw Joanna Pecore Toni Sant Barbara Hampton Mikkilynn Olmsted John J. Cash R. Neill Hadder G. Rabe |