There is a feedback loop that occurs during a performance.
The actors do something and the audience reacts, which causes the actors to react in turn.
Erika Fischer-Lichte calls this relationship the “autopoietic feedback loop” in her book The Transformative Power of Performance: A new aesthetics.
Fischer-Lichte writes, “The performance literally [occurs] between the actors and spectators, and even between the spectators themselves.”
I‘ve often wondered if websites can be performances.
If we view websites through the lens of a feedback loop, they begin to resemble performances. The website is an actor, and you are the audience.
Fischer-Lichte classifies three fundamental processes related to this feedback loop:
“The role reversal of actors and spectators.”
“The creation of a community between actors and spectators.”
“The creation of various modes of mutual, physical contact that help explore the interplay between proximity and distance, public and private, or visual and tactile contact.”
