ITST: Performance
Performance and Fair Dealing
Video Cabaret as an Example
Video Cabaret is a theatre ensemble that originated in Toronto in 1976, and became known for its cutting-edge, multimedia productions that incorporated videos with live performances. Over the years they have accumulated a large archive of performance-related material. Incorporating this hybrid theatre form with the Internet has many valuable consequences: it can function to preserve and create a record of the performances, and it will also allow for the performances to be studied as an art form.
This example highlights the common issues that arts organizations and researchers face in the creation of online archives.
Benefits of the Artmob Community
Every arts group in the country has a collection of shared basic needs e.g. mailing lists, CMS, etc. Expertise is being pooled, under the open source model, to make tools usable and sharable by other arts groups. Artmob is a sophisticated, database-driven tool that enables web development without technical knowledge.
Disputation
Actors, equity contracts can pose obstacles – up to 1985 is non-equity, but later work is equity and could cause issues – most want the material up there, but aren’t sure about the union implications. Artmob can develop new licenses that address these issues through research of legal tools and software tools to solve problems: e.g. methods for posting online, but enable automatic approval e.g. “This is me and I give my permission” or, “If you were in this performance, please contact us”, etc.
Accessibility & Pedagogy
CMS for education materials was suggested to providing resources for high school and other teachers/instructors. Techniques and software to make resources accessible to people with disabilities e.g. video description – for visually impaired to watch TV – descriptions of what’s important visually, inserted between dialogue elements. Sign language could also be put on the web alongside video clips of performances, in the form of video or animation.
Participants:
- Rosemary Coombe (Principal Investigator)
- Darren Wershler-Henry (Principal Investigator)
- Christopher Innes (Principal Investigator/ModernDrama.ca)
- Deanne Taylor (Video Cabaret)
- Michael Hollingsworth (Video Cabaret)
- Deborah Fels (Ryerson University)
- Bill Kennedy (Stop14/The Scream/Coach House Web Developer)
- David Meurer (Artmob/York University)
- Brady Curlew (Artmob/York University)
Resources & Links
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