Lawrence remembered:
>Angie wife-of Den
>Den husband-of Angie
>Sharon daughter-of Den
>
>I'm trying to remember this from a far off time when I taught Computer
>Studies and Media Studies.... well, it paid for my beer habit
>
>it was all user-defined - you made up the relationships and you just went on
>building up the database of statements which were also lines of the
>program - no great distinction
Interestingly, the net is now being used to extend this very database. The
Eastenders Website not only gives historical information but offers back
stories, private letters and opportunities to interact with the characters.
>and then you found that the program knew (ie could tell you) things you
>didn't know (ie which were only implicit in what you knew)
Yes, the image of _the programme being executed_ during poetry performance
is fertile if we consider the role of the audience as active. The audience
knows things and makes connections. Seen in this light, Steve's metaphor
ceases to be mechanistic and becomes an example of interactivity and
subjectivity with the performance being affected by the audience and the
audience reading the the meaning according to the _knowledge_ they bring to
the performance.
Oh and yes, I too remember Den, Angie & Sharon - and when Tiffany recently
met her untimely death, I'm sure it meant something very different to me
than it did to my eleven year old daughter.
orlando (de-lurking)
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