[aether] photos last night

[cym net]

Hello all,

You can download my screengrabs from last night's performance from
http://cym.net/aether9/

The file contains about 40 bmp-images. they should document to whole
performance pretty good. I put them in a zip-file, so they keep the
original timestamp, so you can see the time during the performance
when i took the screengrab.

In general about last night. This was the first time that i wathced
the performance without being connected to the chat or connected via
skype. (the irc-channel was invite only)
So i really saw the performance from the audience point of view. And i
realized that it is really really difficult to follow it, when you
have no contact at all with the people that are performing. Already to
know when exactly it starts is difficult. The sound was a very good
help here, because through the sound there was some sort of
announcement that it was starting and also that is was finished.

I think it would be good to also give clear visible information on the
page, especially shortly before the performance starts, like
'Performance starting in 5 mins' and then this should update every
minute. And if there is a delay, also immediately make this visible on
the website, so that there is a very direct contact to the viewers.
But much better probably, would be a second chat for the public, so
that they can get information what is going on and also so that they
can give feedback.

I think that this webaudience is really something to take serious.
These days people really sit in front of their computer to watch the
performance, and this is surely a group of (invisible) people to focus
on. Maybe also a guestbook or something, some way to collect feedback
from the online audience, would be nice.

In general about last night, i think the addition of sound is making
the online performance much much more interesting. It really carries
the images and when the sound continues it doesn't matter so much if
the webcam images are repeating for a while before new images appear.

So much for now,

cym