Not Quite There – Intro & Instructions

What Is It About?

Not Quite There (Beta) is a collaborative performance, where any person can send any instruction to the performer over the internet and witness it performed real time.

The performer is equipped with a camera phone and the video is transmitted live over the internet. Anybody can see what the performer sees, and anybody can influence what happens in the picture by sending a task to the performer online.

It can be something simple, like writing "Jump 10 Times" in order to see the reaction of people on the streets, or something more complicated such as "Find a person and ask them about their first love while filming them".

Similar to Web 2.0 websites like WikiPedia, MySpace, Twitter with user-generated content and comments, "Not Quite There" creates a performance based on a similar principle: using technology and collaborative effort to create a sort of "mashup" of the audience's opinions, ideas, and images – all in real life!

The performer becomes a vessel for information, a small node (or a neuron) in a huge network receiving instructions and performing them as they arrive. Connected to a bigger information "cloud" through the internet, he exercises his virtual presence, or non presence, which is possible thanks to the new technologies.

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Instructions

The performer will choose his own location, usually a busy street. The time will be announced over the internet. At the time specified the performer will turn his phone camera on, and wait for the audience's instructions.

For the audience:
1. Go to http://qik.com/deemeetree at the time announced.
2. Make sure that you see the live feed video (if you don't – just reload the page until you see it).
3. To the right of the video you see the Chat tab, click on it.
4. Sign your name, and start giving instructions.
5. The performer will do everything* you ask and you'll be able to see it live on the video.

Examples of your instructions you could give:
"Tell us your name"
"Jump 10 times"
"Approach a stranger and ask them to talk to you"
"Lie on the ground and film the reaction of the people around you"

* While the performer will try to do anything you ask, he may choose at his own discretion not to perform certain tasks, if they may cause problems.

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