Open AccessBlack Time in the Age of COVID
Author(s) -
Eric Lewis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
critical studies in improvisation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1712-0624
DOI - 10.21083/csieci.v14i1.6456
Subject(s) - telematics , covid-19 , improvisation , hacker , latency (audio) , telehealth , musical , psychology , health care , medicine , visual arts , computer science , computer security , art , political science , telemedicine , telecommunications , law , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak
Both telematic performances and COVID suffer from latency. In telematic performance, it is the lag between a musical gesture you make, and the time that others in the network receive it. In COVID, it is lags between contact and showing symptoms, and between pubic health policy decisions and their effects. I argue that we need to embrace latency as an improvisational partner both in our telematic performances, and in our health care policies. I argue that Black aesthetics and Black approaches to sound and improvisation have long embraced latency, and that we need to become what is sometime called Afro-logical improvisers both in our networked performances and in our COVID related health policies.