Distributed digital media has produced a new space for performance that has much in common with old spaces: opportunities for spectator anonymity and passivity in particular. The shady interactions of the lurker are difficult to identify and often lead to misapprehensions about the success or failure of online performance. The web statistics rarely count how quickly the back button was pressed. This is partly because of an assumption on the part of developers of performance for the web: that they are virtualising a real-world style experience related to either performance or broadcasting or a mixture of both.
The Web, however, presents more difficulties than this as a push-pull medium. The dynamics of the relationships between people who surf in and people who create frameworks are not dichotomised in the same way as in a performance. In Web 2.0 technologies, it is often the visitor who creates or contributes to the content. Extrapolating this idea to the realm of performance, this presentation will discuss how spectating can be redefined and realigned as contributing. Working beyond the computer hardware and into the realms of the flesh and blood, spectators are now accessible as contributors. The potential for using these new 'input devices' to develop performance work suggests a different relationship in creative practice.
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