This is the power intrinsic to the art experience. What we get instead is the display of commodities, the latest fashions in art to purchase and large scale entertainment events. Understand this, a tranformative event is not entertainment. My recent experiences with two way video teleconferencing and performance via the internet lead me to believe that a dynamic new model for transformative immersive environments is taking shape. Within a simple CU-SeeMe interface the event is porous.
People log on to a conference and their faces show up on the screen.
They are integrated into the event. This is immersion . They are part of the performance and not just a passive audience. Further they direct how the situation develops through chat. The location for a CU-SeeMe event is in cyberspace and exists more in the social connections occurring during the event.