Liveness
Liveness can be understood as “the quality or condition (of an event, performance, etc.) of being heard, watched, or broadcast at the time of occurrence.”
The Oxford dictionary has three other definitions of liveness: (1) It is the quality or condition of being alive; (2) in acoustics, liveness means the property of a room or enclosure, or of a recording, of having a long reverberation time; and (3) in computing, liveness is the property of a circuit, program, or process of giving a good or useful outcome.
In the 1990s, the concept of liveness was informed by a debate inside performance studies surrounding the ephemerality of performance and live art. Philip Auslander’s research on the origin of the concept live showed that what we nowadays name live is a construction of our...
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Ruth, C. (2019). Meta-Liveness, Innovative Perception of Liveness in Online Environments. In: Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6616-1_200092-1
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