Sonya Russell-Saunders
Art Curator and Creative Producer
Algorythmic Performance & Synthentic Reality
A new strategy for performance making
algorithm
a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations,
synthetic reality
An old term for virtual reality, a synthetic reality can be actually and completely there, with full physical sensation, yet created wholly within an intangible environment such as the interplay between a computer system and a mind.
http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/Dictionary.php?Term=Synthetic%20Reality
authentic
of undisputed origin and not a copy; genuine.
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made or done in the traditional or original way, or in a way that faithfully resembles an original.
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based on facts; accurate or reliable.
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(in existentialist philosophy) relating to or denoting an emotionally appropriate, significant, purposive, and responsible mode of human life.
Algorhythmic Performance and Synthentic Reality
Overt and covert systems that govern the performance structure, created through consensus and coercion, explored through rhythmical, repetition, movement and gesture, within a state between 'reality' and 'un-reality', creating a convergence of authentic and synthetic experiences.