Pinning Down the Artists ?

There is a wide variety of work being done by artists working both in conventional genres such as Music, Dance and Theatre as well as newly emergent hybrid and innovative forms such as real-time animation and physically distributed and telematic performance. I want to build up a picture both of what technical resources artists are employing – and to what effect technology is being used; what they are using and for which purposes. From this survey, I will attempt to identify common features of usage; overlapping or congruent combinations of technology and intention that can be used to propose the feature set of a generic multimedia tool for use in live performance.