Major Performance Development

Developments for our major performance this week consists of finishing our final version of the script and recording the audio for our prerecorded scene. In regard to script writing, I believe our methodology of having everyone write their own versions of the script to have been useful, as I struggled to communicate with the rest of the on what they wanted the overall theme, emotions, and message of the final scenes to be. Reading their versions of the scripts, and contrasting them from my own, gave me a much clearer picture of what they were envisioning. Despite this, I do find that our workflow is not as collaborative as I’d like, as any changes to the final script are sometimes not communicated well amongst the group and we might only find out when we meet in class. I believe a more central online collaborative space could be useful to remedy this. This was also my first time using the on air studio in RMIT to record audio, and I learnt a few useful things, such as how far I should be from the mic, that I feel will be beneficial in the future.

Weekly Reading + Independent Research

I chose to delve into the alternative reading provided this week, a podcast focusing on AI’s cultural takeover. The topic centred around the concerns of AI’s ability to create cultural artifacts, as it threatens humanity as the shapers of history. I disagree with the sentiment that AI might overtake humanity’s role as creators, because it lacks a distinctly human element. To delve into this topic deeper, I did some independent research and found an article from The New Yorker titled “Why A.I. Isn’t Going To Make Art”. This ‘human element’ as I described, is defined by Chiang (2024) as sincerity. While human’s might not be great at originality, given that like generative A.I., we rely on the bodies of work that came before us, it is our sincerity in the creation of art that makes it art, as it is a medium of communication we use to express ourselves in one another. I believe that this perspective gives me more insight to the nature of communication, and could be used as a component of out performance, as it involves a human interpreting the calculations of a machine.

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