Monday, March 28, 2011
Mobile Audience Participation with Jonah Bokaer and the Ferst Center
Technology in the Arts: "Audience interaction has become a pretty major trend this year and arts organizations around the country are experimenting with different ways to engage their audiences. But how does one go about making their experience a participatory one? Artist Jonah Bokaer and the Ferst Center for the Arts at Georgia Tech decided to approach the issue using mobile technology. Jonah Bokaer is an award-winning choreographer and media artist participating in the Ferst Center’s first ever year-long dance residency program, ARTech.
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Let me start by saying: I am a huge proponent of interactivity in live performance, and I'm constantly on the lookout for ways to use technology to augment storytelling. This type of show, though, seems like they've forgotten the marshmallow - for a dance performance, this is a lot more of a technology showcase. The article dismisses issues with phone light in the theatre and losing attention, but that's HUGE! That's what the live performance is there for! The interactivity is overshadowing the dance, and this is a misrepresentation of the performance's intention. The solution could be allowing the audience to play before the performance and create lighting cues, then use those created cues to design the rest of the show - that would still keep the "different every night" and "audience interacting with show" aspects, but alleviate the attention issues between the screen and the stage.
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