We went to the library today to find out exactly what a manifesto was and to research some information to include in our manifesto. i found out about hypersurface and cyborg theatre.

Hypersurface is where both the real and virtual world meet. it's simultaneously real and representation and it's benefits are that you can' enter the work of art, be part of it as well as interact with it.' in other words it's a liminal space so the viewer can have a double presence. they can be in both the real and virtual worlds simultaneously and modify one through the other. the reason that it's successful in performance is that the audience member enters a world of simulation whilst maintaining a rapport with their own environment. 'it's not immersive but it simulates emersiveness.'

cyborg theatre uses cybernetics as part of it's method and practice. enmeshing the human with the environment in the simulated world of the world wide web. 'it takes place through and on the body of the performer. where the body itself becomes both the laboratory and the theatre of the piece.' it allow the audience the possibility of not only enter the piece but become one with the performers body.

Lowri and I looked through the manifesto book and found it to be little help but we believe a manifesto is basically a detailed argument for or against a topic that is used to inform and persuade. Lowri and I decided to write half each and read what our own words.

We have decided to film the footage of the miner on a camera phone as if a passerby has shot it. our reasoning is that it will illustrate just how easy it is to record and transmit information in the digital age.

Also today we wrote our script- the basic outline of which was the presenter would interview the miner about his experience underground then the interviewer would ask some question via email and the miner would ask what an email was- which would then lead onto a discussion of what the Internet does and it's function- then we will go to our pre-recorded manifesto as if it was a news report. i suggested that we should do our manifesto about virtual theatre and that we should argue for it's inclusion of digital technology as we both new quite a bit about that anyway.