Documenting mixed reality performance: the case of CloudPad

Abstract

This article introduces an original documentation and archiving tool, CloudPad, that integrates 'cloud computing' into the annotation and synchronisation of mixed media resources. Through CloudPad users are able to view a documentation, edit a version of it, and record their own comments in response to it. Whether users may have created and/or experienced a particular work, or whether they may simply wish to consult a work's documentation, their journey through these records and annotations are subsumed into the work's documentation, thus augmenting the 'original' artwork's field of social engagement. Before discussing CloudPad in detail, we proceed to explain how recent debates in performance documentation influenced our methodology and development, and the general challenges of mixed reality documentation that CloudPad aims to address. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC

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“…The Digital Replay System further developed the highly flexible ways a user could navigate a complex corpus of recordings/data streams in a collaborative environment (Benford and Giannachi, 2011;Crabtree et al, 2015;Greenhalgh et al, 2007;Murgia et al, 2008). More recently, computer scientists and performance art theorists have combined their efforts to develop systems such as CloudPad, with which anyone can regenerate a hybrid replay of the mixed reality performance (Giannachi et al, 2012). Steptoe and Steed (2012) suggest a reference architecture for replay that 'collates multiple components of a user's nonverbal and verbal behavior in single log file, thereby preserving the temporal relationships between cues' (Steptoe and Steed, 2012: 388).…”