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Figure 7.14.
logic diagram for a cybernetic theater. source: Pask 1964b, 25, dia-
gram 10. (reproduced by permission of the North american Pask archive.)
Research. In it Pask describes in considerable detail how audience and actors
could be coupled together via feedback loops in determining the substance
of any specific performance. Pask's basic idea here was that of a new kind
of play, which would retain certain set-piece structural elements, specified
in advance, but which would include alternative routes of plot development
between the set pieces in an entailment-mesh-like structure, including the
possibility that the trajectories might redefine the significance of the fixed
elements.
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During the performance, members of the audience could signal
their identification with one or another of the principal actors (designated
A
and
B
in fig. 7.14). At specified branchpoints, the audience could also use
