Performance Notes:
The performance was done before a live audience on the evening of March 8th, 2003. The image above is of the entire space from the back of the gallery. The six projections complimented by the sound of the game and the amplified voices of the performers combined to create a complex auditory and visual experience. Thanks to all who helped to make this event a success.

Threatened Legal Action by Warner Brothers:
On March 5th, 2003, after "Quake/Friends" was featured in a widely read review in the New York Times, I received notice from the Warner Brothers legal department that they would consider elgal action against me over their view that I was possibly in copyright infringement over my use of "Friends" material in my performance works. They requested that I cease, after this second "Quake/Friends" performance, any further use of "Friends" material in my work and that I remove all copyrighted "Friends" material from my web site. Although it is my firm belief that these works are parody, and thus protected by "fair use" standards established by the United States Supreme Court, we eventually came to a compromise. I have suggested to WB and they have accepted my commitment not to perform a "new" script from the "Friends" TV show for "Quake/Friends.2". (I had originally planned to perform the original pilot episode that I downloaded from a "Freinds" fan website). Rather than presenting the pilot, we settled on performing from the same episode we used for the first performance in October of 2002. I have, however, refused to remove any content from my website.

This second version in the "Quake/Friends" series, was our first attempt at performing both online and in front of a live audience. The evening commenced with a solo-reading/performance of selected works of WW1 poet Seigfried Sassoon online in the "Medial of Honor" WW2 wargame simulation.

The main event of the evening followed: a reading, by a cast of six playing characters from the television show "Friends", real-time in a "Quake 3 Arena" online game space. The performance will featured six data projections showing the point of view of each actor in the game environment.

Read on for information about the first incarnation of "Quake/Friends". I've posted extensive documentation and imagery available from this page - click on the links above at right of this text box.

Quake/Friends.2
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Quake/Friends
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The Performers

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