For the Media Theory class I'm currently taking at ASU's AME program, we were asked to generate works re-imagining a piece of media content in a different medium -- my group was assigned a scene from Pulp Fiction, which we rendered in Twitter (I'm still trying to decide if I should link that here -- yay philosophical personal/public divide). In any case, another group generated a performance piece expressing their interpretation of a series of letters exchanged between school children and Albert Einstein. I was struck by the performative nature of their presentation and asked if they could recreate it on video.
Sadly, this version differs significantly from what we saw in class -- the original choreography involved a 3rd person portraying the role of the postal service as the channel in the Shannon-Weaver model of communication; she wasn't available to perform, so they modified the choreography with each endpoint also portraying the transmission portion. Also lost is the really, really flipping cool bit at the end where they mixed their spoken explanatory presentation with text from the actual letters, which was very cool to watch. Anyway, without further ado:
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