FALL 2005
ACTLab: Performance
We had a simple set of requirements: come to class once a week and make 3 projects explaining the theories and
processes discussed.
Work beyond conventional limits.
Discover new ways to combine technology, art, and theory.
Acquire advanced technical, conceptual, and theoretical abilities.
Experiment with digital media, film, sound, light, video, performance, or...
Project 1: Culture Jamming
By using existing mass media to comment on those very media themselves, we were able to use the
original medium's communication method with a live performance of cultural ideology that we saw as
whacky. The performance in class was a demonstration in clearly exaggerated examples that combined
symbols and images from different parts of popular culture that appear even more obviously convoluted
once our messages became so daunting that even us, the performers seemed confused!