Distributed liveness: understanding how new technologies transform performance experiences

Webb, Andrew M.; Wang, Chen; Kerne, Andruid; Cesar, Pablo

doi:10.1145/2818048.2819974

Webb, A.M. (Andrew M.), Wang, C. (Chen), Kerne, A. (Andruid) and Cesar, P. (Pablo)

2016-02-27

Distributed liveness: understanding how new technologies transform performance experiences

Presented at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (February 2016), San Francisco, California, USA

We identify emerging phenomena of distributed liveness, involving new relationships among performers, audiences, and technology. Liveness is a recent, technology-based construct, which refers to experiencing an event in real-time with the possibility for shared social realities. Distributed liveness entails multiple forms of physical, spatial, and social copresence between performers and audiences across physical and virtual spaces. We interviewed expert performers about how they experience liveness in physically co-present and distributed settings. Findings show that distributed performances and technology need to support flexible social copresence and new methods for sensing subtle audience responses and conveying engagement abstractly.

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Persistent URL	doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819974
Conference	Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Organisation	Distributed and Interactive Systems
Citation APA Style AAA Style APA Style Cell Style Chicago Style Harvard Style IEEE Style MLA Style Nature Style Vancouver Style American-Institute-of-Physics Style Council-of-Science-Editors Style BibTex Format Endnote Format RIS Format CSL Format DOIs only Format	Webb, A.M. (Andrew M.), Wang, C., Kerne, A. (Andruid), & César Garcia, P. S. (2016). Distributed liveness: understanding how new technologies transform performance experiences. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 432–437). doi:10.1145/2818048.2819974