{"id":102,"date":"2014-08-14T12:41:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T12:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T10:33:08","slug":"rur","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/web-opera\/rur\/","title":{"rendered":"MINI-WEB OPERA: RUR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/files\/2014\/08\/RUR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-193 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/files\/2014\/08\/RUR-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"RUR - Martin Rieser\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/files\/2014\/08\/RUR-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/files\/2014\/08\/RUR-811x1024.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RUR &#8211; Martin Rieser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/rur\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">RUR (Rossum\u2019s Universal <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><em>Replicants<\/em>)<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">A Mini-Web Opera by\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\">by<a href=\"http:\/\/martinrieser.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <strong>Martin Rieser<\/strong> <\/a>(electronic\/interactive artist) and <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewhugill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Andrew Hugill<\/strong><\/a> (composer)<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"en-GB\">A new genre of opera is emerging from digital culture:<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">\u00a0 <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">a new way of telling stories and generating new audiences. The RUR mini-web opera provides an explosive encounter between new technologies and the long-established tradition of opera. <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">RUR transforms the way in which operatic works are produced and consumed. Audiences are engaged in active participation through Social Media, and the roles of the collaborators in a production are changed. The operatic experience becomes intermedial, networked, asynchronous and immersive. <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">Built around coordinated social media delivery relating the story, it will be presented as a series of live newslinks and updates: using sections of song and conversation, fabricated CCTV histories and newsfeeds will be combined as Twitter feeds, Facebook postings, blog posts and YouTube materials to the signed up audience\u2019s mobile surfaces and social media interfaces. As in Karel Capek\u2019s visionary 1920s play, <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">this mini-opera will explore the theme of science used for profit without thought of consequences, where \u2018robots\u2019 are actually organic physically indistinguishable <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">replicants<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> of humans.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>Online <a title=\"RUR\" href=\"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/rur\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUR (Rossum\u2019s Universal Replicants) A Mini-Web Opera by\u00a0by Martin Rieser (electronic\/interactive artist) and Andrew Hugill (composer) A new genre of <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/web-opera\/rur\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MINI-WEB OPERA: RUR<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"parent":56,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-102","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Pzez-1E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/102\/revisions\/492"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/omf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}