From: <corc-*at*anglistik.uni-muenchen.de>;
Dear Geert, dear Trebor, dear List,
My name is Marlena Corcoran (www.marlenacorcoran.com). I am a writer and
electronic narrative artist. I have published media theoretical articles
in several journals, including three in Leonardo: A Journal of Art and
Technology. "'The Gallbladder Sonata': Transmission Time on the Internet"
will appear in a collaborative publishing venture between Leonardo Music
Journal and Leonardo Electronic Almanac( all, MIT Press). I am interested
in collaborations that include non-human entities, such as transmission
time,
or online/offline publications. Whether human or non-human, I prefer
collaborators who or which are uncontrollable. I am open-minded but not
particularly sociable.
My first digital venture was collaborative: blast5drama, at The Sandra
Gering Gallery (1997). I was one of the editors of this project, and wrote
the starting hyperlink, a story called, "Crossroads."
Since 1995, I have participated in collaborative online/offline theater
with The Plaintext Players (http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~players/). Some of
my thoughts on Performative Textual Subjectivity can be found on parapluie
(http://www.parapluie.de/archiv/cyberkultur/galerie/pic01.html). I find
myself engaging in meta-collaboration, in which I collaborate with one of
my online personae to perform yet a third online theaterical role. The
Plaintext Players tack between collaboration and control; that is, the
vision or will of one of us. This tension is, I find, more productive than
collaboration as anything-goes.
My internet theater piece, "The Birth of the Christ Child: A Divine
Comedy," was published in PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art (MIT
Press, 2003). I wrote an introduction that describes the performance mode
of the Plaintext Players.
My international collaborations leave me with thoughts and questions about
personality, time and language.
I would be interested in reading your views about the opportunities and
the limits of collaboration, and possibly participating in the live
events.
I was born in New York and live in Munich.
With good wishes to you all, Marlena