Live Art

October 19th, 2002 | by Tony Steidler-Dennison | 1 views

Over in Collision Detection, Clive points to an article in the NY Times about the trend toward tracking the views of your online audience when creating television shows.

What digital culture is doing is turning all art into live art: You throw out a riff, see what the response is like, and respond accordingly. TV producers are going to have to start operating more like DJs, whose entire act consists of running small Skinnerian experiments on the audience — tossing out a beat for a few seconds, seeing if it gets any action, then either discarding it or mixing in.

Really, now. Wasn’t it only a matter of time?

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