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right - it depends on the purpose of your documentation. if you want the documentation to replicate the actual performance as closely as possible, then a screen recording (or some kind of replay function) is the thing; but if it is to keep tangible traces of an ephemeral event, then there are many other things besides a recording - chat, screengrabs, scripts, media, publicity material etc. - which can create an interesting record. i find watching recordings of networked performances quite strange - there is a flatness without the real-time interaction, & the glitches & bumps that make the live event exciting can become awkward in a recording. we have very different expectations of recorded digital media/film/video and live performance/theatre, yet these expectations can get mixed up when it comes to recordings of live events. for me the focus is always on the live event. great that you can log the chat in SL; in UpStage we use it to document meetings as well as performances, audience responses also, & a lot as a scripting tool when we are devising performances - improvising & then reading over the chat log to find the bits that "worked". h : ) On 27/02/12 4:13 PM, Dennis Moser wrote: > Second Life does have the capacity to log Chat — some of us use it for > the purposes of keeping track of audience responses. > > I'm reading this discussion closely as the documentation of SL > performance, in particular, is an area of research. I'm not sure I'd > say that a chat log and a few screengrabs can fully replace a > well-done screen recording, but then that's part of what is up for > debate, yes? > > Best, > > Dennis > > ~~ > If your first move is brilliant, you’re in trouble. You don’t really > know how to follow it; you’re frightened of ruining it. So, to make a > mess is a good beginning. — Brian Eno > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:31, helen varley jamieson > <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: > > this might be getting a bit off the topic, but in platforms such > as Panoplie & UpStage, the chat is definitely a significant > element of the performance & often i find that the chat log & a > few screengrabs make more interesting documentation than a screen > recording. the chat can be a very lively space that complements & > enhances the performance. often it's the key to the audience > believing that what is happening really is live, & it gives an > important voice & role to the audience. > > not all platforms have a chat, & i don't know whether others like > second life & visitors studio have the capacity to record the chat > (?) but where it is used it's a vital part of the whole. > > h : ) > > On 26/02/12 1:39 PM, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > > When in 2006 I organised my first webperformances with > panoplie.org <http://panoplie.org> we > decided not to archive the performance itself (the > participating artists > could do that on their own if they wished) but instead to keep > archives of > the chats during the performances - these chats being a second > layer of > performance that witnessed at least as much of what had been > happening as > the performance video. > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > > helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.make-shift.net > http://www.upstage.org.nz > ____________________________________________________________ > > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst [log in to unmask] http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.make-shift.net http://www.upstage.org.nz ____________________________________________________________