Live from cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot

Authors

  • Philip Auslander Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication
  • Jair Molina Junior Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2024.221599

Keywords:

live, real time, performance, digital technology, artificial intelligence, chatbots

Abstract

The popularization of the english word live recently to symbolize the production of real time audiovisual content for the internet has in this article a presentation of its historical trajectory, from the advent of this word published in an English dictionary for the first time in 1934, to the current contextualization of implications of live in the most recent manifestations of a particular digital technology: conversational softwares, known as chatbots. For this reason, we present this translation into portuguese of the essay “Live from cyberspace”, by Philip Auslander, which addresses the implications of these uses for understanding live performance and the crisis surrounding the liveness in relation to digital technologies as an ontological discussion about who performs it.

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Author Biographies

  • Philip Auslander, Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Literature, Media, and Communication

    Professor de Estudos da Performance e Musicologia Popular na Escola de Literatura, Mídia e Comunicação do Instituto Tecnológico da Geórgia. Autor dos livros Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture (1999, 3ª edição 2023), Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Music (2006),  Reactivations: Essays on Performance and Its Documentation (2018), In Concert: Performing Musical Persona (2021) e Women Rock! Portraits in Popular Music (2023), entre outros.

  • Jair Molina Junior, Universidade de São Paulo. Escola de Comunicações e Artes

    Realizador audiovisual e professor no Instituto Federal de Brasília. Mestre em Meios e Processos Audiovisuais pela ECA-USP. Pesquisador do Laboratório de Artes, Mídias e Tecnologias Digitais (LabArteMídia). Autor dos livros Os Bandidos e Estrela Brazyleira a Vagar - Cacilda!! (2019) e Cinema ao Vivo e Experiências Audiovisuais em Tempo Real (2024).

References

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AUSLANDER, P. “Live from cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot”. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Cambridge, v. 24, n. 1, p. 16-21, 2002. Disponível em: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3246456. Acesso em: 25 jan. 2024.

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Published

2024-07-19

Issue

Vol. 51 (2024)

Section

Traduções

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How to Cite

Auslander, P., & Molina Junior, J. (2024). Live from cyberspace: or, I was sitting at my computer this guy appeared he thought I was a bot. Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 51, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2024.221599