Back To The Future

Where could this piece go in the future? How could it develop? How could it translate into a different context?

For a start popularity and intrigue demands that we repeat the performance for many more audience - not in terms of more than one at a time, but for a longer period of time so that it can run more times. We are currently looking at not only options for repeating it at Dartington, but also at the Submerge festival 2006.

It has been suggested that we could install it on a number of machines and run more than one performance at a time, but to me taking it out of context into a computer suite or IT department just wouldn't have the same performative quality to it.

This goes for distributing the work over the Internet (via BitTorrents or as a Shockwave website), or via DVD-ROM. Although technologically possible, it would then become all about the production values and design of the interface, not immersing the User within an interactive environment.

The ongoing problems of webcam integration could indeed be solved over time, both through automated webcam components (Xtras, Hardware combinations) and more lo-fi Networked laptop solutions. - I personally am not sure I now want to take part in these modifications; it seems I've become attached to the piece as it stands and would find it a wrench to change it in any way now.

Please feel free to add comments as to where you think the work should progress to...