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The ANNIE project
Mark Childs
The ANNIE project
• Providing access to remote experts/ remote delivery to students
• using various technologies
• in various teaching situations
• supporting drama, dance and theatre studies
ANNIE Project
Linking together UK universities and outside experts
• Universities are Warwick, Kent, De Montfort, Exeter, Queens Belfast
• Experts in Kansas, Vancouver, Frankfurt and around UK (BBC, Blast Theory and universities listed above)
Videoconferencing activitiesLocation of lecturer(s)
Location of students Technologies Used for
Frankfurt Warwick ISDN Vivas
Vancouver Warwick IP + PCs + iVisit + projection Workshop
Exeter Canterbury IP + PCs + NetMeeting + projection software demo
IP + gateway + projection Workshop
London Warwick ISDN Lecture
London Warwick IP + PCs + NetMeeting + projection Lecture
Vancouver Leicester IP + PCs + iVisit Workshop
Vancouver various IP + PCs + iVisit via dial-up Workshop
Kansas Canterbury IP + PCs +NetMeeting Supervision
Exeter and Canterbury
Videoconferencing activitiesLocation of lecturer(s)
Location of students Technologies Used for
Kent Exeter IP Viewstation Vivas
Carolina Texas IP + PCs + Yahoo + projection lecture
ShrewsburyScottish Highlands and Islands
ISDN multiway tutorials
KentQueen's College, Belfast
IP + PCs + NetMeeting + projectionexternal examination
Sections
• Introduction to virtual performances
• Telematic Performance workshops at Warwick
• Three contrasting types of workshop
• Questions raised by virtual performances
Telematic Performance at Warwick
The Telematic Performance
• Susan Kozel, Practitioner based in Vancouver
• First year students at Warwick
• Performance and Practice module
Performance space
• Physical performance space
• Virtual performance space
PCMonitorwebcamera
Hub
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P
P
uplink
PCMonitorwebcamera
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P
LaptopData projectorVideo cameraVideo bus
multipoint
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screen
Audiences
• Performers can see each other on their computers
• People sit in studio and watch via projection
Activities in workshop
Discussions of concepts Online chat
Structured improvisations– Creating a virtual face and body Follow the leader
Rehearsed performance pieces
Structured improvisations
Rehearsed performance piece
Blast Theory workshop
Blast Theory
• Theatre group incorporating new technology in their work.
• Merging audience and performers
• Rationale: to make work accessible, to engage with changes in society, to reposition theatre as innovative and exciting
Warwick workshop
At Warwick students developed pieces using
• Walkie talkies
• Chat rooms
• Displayed on screen via data projector
Physical Performance workshop
Videoconferenced physical performance• Took place Friday, 8th March, 2002
• Canterbury and Exeter
• Eastern physical performance
• Performers in one half of studio
• Wall-length screen hung in centre
• Other half of group projected on screen
Why did it fail as a workshop?
• delays in setting up
• low frame rates
• image freezing and speeding up
• time lags
Why did it fail as a workshop?
• Inappropriateness of subject matter
• Selection of activities
• difficulties with communication
• difficulties with performance space
• sightlines
• inappropriate expectations
Solutions
• Include students and staff more in the explorative aspect of the project
• Use the link to demonstrate work rather than work across the link
• Make technology part of what is being explored
Telematic Performance at DMU
Differences with Warwick
• Students based at home for 2nd and 4th session
• Dial-up modems created additional difficulties
• Performance and connection from own space created different ‘feel’
Where next?
• ANNIE project finished March 2003
• Dissemination activities continue
• Possibility of transferability funding to pursue further work
Potential transferability activities
University of Wolverhamptongiving advice on tutoring of MA students based in creative and media industries via webcameras
Jubilee Arts series of videoconferenced performances
CSSDcollaborating on guidance materials, combining f2f and distance group practice
Rose Brufordadvice on distance learning writing for theatre course creating videoconferenced performances
Research Councils' Graduate School Programme
workshops on teaching via videoconferencing
University of Hertford, Connecticut collaborating on creating performanceswhatsthebigmistry collaborating on creating performancesBlissbody collaborating on creating performancesManchester Media Rich Seminar
Contacts
•http://www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/ANNIE/