Virtual Scenic Spaces and the Staging of Interactivity

Abstract

In this essay I propose to consider the possible existence of a virtual scenic space based on a proposal in which the devices used for its development are determinant in enabling processes of production of meaning within its material configuration and location. The  analysis will be focused on Now by Pat Catterson (2016), a work that will be questioned about the devices used, if they can determine the creation of a virtual scenic space and if so, what are the forms of expectation and reading contracts that they propose. I wonder if the production of images made possible by the use of hyper-devices modifies the perceptual scheme that can be foreseen in a classic reading contract between performers and spectators. Being Now a proposal that brings together a group of face-to-face performers acting simultaneously with another group of performers located in different parts of the planet and that also enables various forms of expectation (audience in the room and audience that consumed the streaming of the same) is useful to address the new links that have been generated between producers and viewers in technological environments that involve technological devices, the development of the Internet and various software to relate distant levels of reality or impossible contact.