{"article":{"id":12883,"heading":"Desktop Theatre online vigil<3rd screenshot>","author":"Adriene Jenik\/ Desktop Theatre","created":"2001-11-15 04:25:36","modified":"2005-08-15 00:43:17","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:43:17","article":"

This is the second scren shot of an online vigil against war that took place at several virtual communities.

In these online communities, people at home chose a character (avatar) and wonder through virtual landscapes interacting with other avatars.

The following performance stills were taken from a series of \"vigils\" performed in the

public chat space\/application \"The Palace\" specifically in \"Mt. Olympus\" and \"FireBirdz Forest\".

We performed it three times on 9\/15\/01 and then a few more times after that.

Some of the women are in New York, and some in New Zealand & Italy.

We walked a silent vigil across rooms with people in them.

At various times, these women were up there:

karla ptacek, vicki smith & paolo grippa, helen varley Jamieson,

adriene Jenik, Ann Snitow, Connie Samaras, Lisa Brenneis

Responses varied (& still vary as we meet on a regular basis & this

is one of our current activities). On the nights that you see the

pics from- responses included chatters calling us \"black turds with

foliage\", joining us in our silent vigil across the screen

(following our avatars), making pro-war comments, expressing fear at

our image, being silent (not sure if this was ignoring us or

respecting the \"vigil\" space we were bringing in), laughing at us -

\"lol\" or \"lmao\" - (this happened when people from israel or eastern

europe recognized the group from \"real life\" feminist anti-war

protest actions), and of course we shared the screen with avatars

named \"bye-bye afghanistan\" and \"bedtime for democracy\" - the chat

space is definitely a reflection of culture at large.



I was in NYC during the month of September doing an artist residency. Obviously it took a fateful turn on 9\/11 -- I

switched gears & started to work with others to produce alternative media (doing camera for Demoncracy Now in

exile - Amy goodman's news show that was moved to broadcast from DCTV & is now a TV show as well) & also

did a series of performances as \"Women in Black\" in the public visual chatrooms that I (and the DT troupe)

perform Desktop Theater in - we went in every day at a

certain time & performed silent vigils walking across the spaces (slowly) where people were. It was fascinating to see the response.<\/p>\n","contact":"ajenik@uscd.edu","link":"","address":"UCSD","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"This is the third screenshot of an online vigil against war that took place at several virtual communities.\r\n\r\nIn these online communities, people at home chose a character (avatar) and wonder through virtual landscapes interacting with other avatars.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/wib_091501_022.gif","filesize":"93.2 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/11\/12883.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/11\/wib_091501_022.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}