HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON, 2008
A solo performance using a Pollocks toy theatre & figures to tell a tragic love story in images. the soundtrack was the looped & layered voice of sally rodwell saying “the story is mine”, and the online audience created their own narrative in the text chat window
ESSAY by KARLA PTACEK and HELEN VARLEY JAMIESON, 2004
for trAce Online Writing Centre
This article was first published on the trAce web site and won the Process Award in trAce and Writers for the Future’s New Media Article Writing Competition, Nov. 2004
KARLA PTACEK and VICKI SMITH, 2004
A project developed between two groups of students from Westland High School [Hokitika] and Eltham Hill College for Girls [London] through asynchronous discussion and sharing of files [image, text, sound and video] while they learned how to develop artefacts for, and engage through, the newly developed online theatre space UpStage.
Helen Varley Jamieson, Vicki Smith, Paolo Grippa and others, 2001
This project was an experiment in using the internet to bring remote performers into a theatre performance – not with web cams but using a graphical chat room & cartoonesque avatars.