{"article":{"id":12876,"heading":"Desktop Theater-Women In Black On-line protest","author":"Adriene Jenik","created":"2001-11-15 03:52:02","modified":"2005-08-15 00:43:16","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:43:16","article":"<br>  <br>  The following performance stills were taken from a series of \"vigils\" performed in the <br>  <br> public chat space\/application \"The Palace\" specifically in \"Mt. Olympus\" and \"FireBirdz Forest\".  <br><br> We performed it three times on 9\/15\/01 and then a few more times after that. <br>  <br> Some of the women are in New York, and some in New Zealand &amp; Italy. <br>  <br> We walked a silent vigil across rooms with people in them. <br><br> At various times, these women were up there: <br>  <br> karla ptacek, vicki smith &amp; paolo grippa, helen varley Jamieson,  <br>  <br> adriene Jenik, Ann Snitow, Connie Samaras, Lisa Brenneis <br><br> Responses varied (&amp; still vary as we meet on a regular basis &amp; this  <br>  <br> is one of our current activities). On the nights that you see the  <br>  <br> pics from- responses included chatters calling us \"black turds with  <br>  <br> foliage\", joining us  in our silent vigil across the screen  <br>  <br> (following our avatars), making pro-war comments, expressing fear at  <br>  <br> our image, being silent (not sure if this was ignoring us or  <br>  <br> respecting the \"vigil\" space we were bringing in), laughing at us -  <br>  <br> \"lol\" or \"lmao\" - (this happened when people from israel or eastern  <br>  <br> europe recognized the group from \"real life\" feminist anti-war  <br>  <br> protest actions), and of course we shared the screen with avatars  <br>  <br> named \"bye-bye afghanistan\" and \"bedtime for democracy\" - the chat  <br>  <br> space is definitely a reflection of culture at large. <br><br>  <br>  <br>    I was in NYC during the month of September doing an artist residency. Obviously it took a fateful turn on 9\/11 -- I <br>  <br>    switched gears &amp; started to work with others to produce alternative media (doing camera for Demoncracy Now in <br>  <br>    exile - Amy goodman's news show that was moved to broadcast from DCTV &amp; is now a TV show as well) &amp; also <br>  <br>    did a series of performances as \"Women in Black\" in the public visual chatrooms that I (and the DT troupe) <br>  <br>    perform Desktop Theater in - we went in every day at a <br>  <br>    certain time &amp; performed silent vigils walking across the spaces (slowly) where people were. It was fascinating to see the response.\n","contact":"<ajenik@ucsd.edu>","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":" The following performance stills were taken from a series of \"vigils\" performed in the\r\npublic chat space\/application \"The Palace\" specifically in \"Mt. Olympus\" and \"FireBirdz Forest\". \r\n\r\nWe performed it three times on 9\/15\/01 and then a few more times after that.\r\nSome of the women are in New York, and some in New Zealand & Italy.\r\nWe walked a silent vigil across rooms with people in them.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/wib_091501_011.gif","filesize":"65.4 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12876.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/wib_091501_011.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}