Redefining “the here and now”; the aesthetics of virtual telematic communication in Dries Verhoeven’s Guilty Landscapes and in Amal Omran, Hatem Hadawe, and Kathryn Hamilton’s Three Rooms.

Abstract

This research analyses the aesthetics of telematic performance. Through a systematic relation among theories and concepts about telematic technology and intermedial performance, it argues that telematics drives to new understandings of the notions of time,space and presence. Focusing on the performances of Guilty Landscapes by Dries Verhoeven and of Three Rooms by Amal Omran, Hatem Hadawe, and Kathryn Hamilton, this thesis explores how we, as experiencers, can deal with our presence in-between virtual proximity and physical distance during the process of virtual telematic communication.