The Fantasy Beyond Control Yukun

The first thing that came out of my head was magic when it talks about interactive work in The Fantasy Beyond Control by Lynn Hershman. It’s hard to believe anyone in this world doesn’t like magic. It’s a great interactive art but I’m not sure if magic counts for performance art when I try to link this to the other reading. Magic has a fairly low status compared to other forms of theatre. Jerry Seinfeld talked about it, “What is the point of the magician? He comes on, he fools you, you feel stupid, show’s over. You never know what’s actually happened. It’s like, here’s a quarter. Now it’s gone. You’re a jerk.” Unfortunately Seinfeld is right for the majority of magic performances. The issue of magic as an art form is often discussed by magicians, but not so much in the literature on performance arts. Magic is mostly seen as a second rate type of performance art with nothing much to offer beyond frivolous entertainment. Back to the article, one thing that the author mentioned is that “computer systems will eventually reflect the personality and the biases of users. Yet these systems only appear to talk back.” Human-computer interaction is a kind of interactive art. The author thought and interactive media is important because the perceptions became the key to reality. In Art as Performative Enactment, the sequence talked about playing the game attract me,” ‘I am playing the game’; ‘we are playing the game’; ‘the game is being played through our movements’; and finally ‘the game plays itself through our movements.’” This describes the key of playing a game. It shows the interaction between the game and the player as a round way trip. This is a simple piece of interactive art I found that can explain the idea well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCMhGRyUKaY.