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	comments on page 3	Re: your discussion of theatre and the 'fourth wall' I think it is interesting to think how this space is reconfigured in some modern theatre (and film): the times that these spaces become liminal or disrupted and what this means for actor and audience. ÊIn the earlier book by Laurel (1990) The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design several of the chapters deal with this question of interface and the creation and design of audience, especially in relation to character guides that attempt to straddle the space between screen and user. The telephone interview piece--can't get a sense of it from the image... but think long distance calls are interesting when there is a time gap as they kind of break the seal of, interrupt the interface of time and space. by carey jewitt on 5/14/2003 at 10:22:28 Have you seen a movie in IMAX yet? There are usually IMAX theaters in places already overloaded with visual stimulation like Aquariums, or Amusement Parks or destinations like Las Vegas. I think you should visit the Mystic aquarium when it gets warmer. There are a few large glass walls through which you can see Beluga whales, stingrays, jellyfish, and sharks. They can see you too, That is an interesting sof interface as well. http://www.maritimeaquarium.org/whats_going_on/imax.html by Glen Cummings on 4/16/2003 at 15:55:00 The telephone is an interesting interface. It sounds like the Alibi CD plays with it in an good way. I think what is most interesting to me about that is that when you experience reality through an interface (and of course we all do, even the real world) you do the work of constructing reality yourself. So the ingredients of what makes a reality has everything to do with the interface through which it is perceived. It's funny that to the constructor of a world through a telephone all that is necessary to be convinced is a CD. by Simon Greenwold on 4/09/2003 at 17:06:22 Richard Foreman likes to put up an actual plexiglass barrier in front of the stage for his plays. It literalizes what you're saying. I'm not sure the stage barrier can be said to be the prototype for the TV and computer screens. They are so different. I think the case is easier for TV, but I still might say that although it came later, the TV screen is really the prototype for the stage screen. And I think the issue of the computer screen is complicated by its being all you typically have to manipulate in the machine. I suppose 3D modelling is a kind of theater, but I think it's more like movie-making. Camera-oriented before being audience oriented. The props and flats to interface elements I think only hold up insofar as they're both flat. But we aren't ever invited to punch sets. Also look at Jean Baudrillard who has interesting things to say about television and modern life as interface. by Simon Greenwold on 4/09/2003 at 17:03:37			+
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