Network Performance is the theme behind a new Culture 2007 project - Comedia. More about this in January!  

I'm part of a group that uses FM transmission as a mode of communication (performer 1 transmits to performer 2 etc.) The point here is not always 'togetherness' but subversion. Of course networked performance immediately suggests passing and responding to information (the 'blog' model or email thread) the best intentions are maintained in good faith. But interestingly, re-writes can be introduced, redefining the sent messages, fakery or gross manipulations (the wikipedia model??). Truth goes out the window and the sense of the autonomous ego can be lost. Am interested to hear what there is to say on the subject.  

We tried this as an interactive gig at Tate modern. Attempted in real time, latency and errors between us and performers as far away as Japan seemed to produce a 'subversion' and no less interesting.  

I think it is significant that during the time of performances using live signals from AM and shortwave radios, there was a sense of great space and distance implicit in the sounds, coming from the understanding that the signal itself was, in fact, traveling over great spaces and distances. I think with networked and internet performances there is a much greater sense of immediacy--I am actually logged on to that other computer, and where it happens to sit does not matter. To me, with 'networked and geographically displaced performance' over the internet, the sense of distance as compared with radio transmission is effectively reduced to nothing, latency notwithstanding.