Event Schedule

All are invited!
Please attend in-the-flesh,
watch-listen to the live webcast and participate via e-mail,
or participate via e-mail alone.

To see-hear the webcast after the event, please click here.

If you do not yet have Realplayer on your computer, you can download 
the free version from here.

To see the present time anywhere in the world, click here.

To send feedback, please e-mail to <emiller@sas.upenn.edu>.

This live/videoconference/webcast/e-mail event will be a conversation with Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett's students in her “Performance Studies Issues and Methods” class in the Performance Studies Dept. of NYU.  We will be discussing such questions as:  What is the role of liveness in theorizing performance?  What is the role of media in theorizing liveness? When co-performers and audience members are connected via videoconferencing, are they “live” to each other?  In such cases, is one event or multiple events occurring?  What is meant by the term, the “metaphysics of presence”? 

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For background reading regarding Friday's session:

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/issues

Scroll down to the 11/27 session to see links to
a) _Guide to the readings_
b) _The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan_
c) _Walter Benjamin, "The work of art in an age
        of mechanical reproduction"_
d) _Digital Performance Archive, Franklin Furnace_