The Pathfinders Methodology
Our project builds on the Traversal methodology by including a live performance via streaming media and engaging the public in real-time using social media. In this way, the audience can interact with the author or reader performing the work, and ask questions which add commentary to the experience. The initial Pathfinders methodology includes the video recording of the live Traversal, background of the work, author information, photographs of all of the material components of the work, critical essays, resources, and in some cases, interviews and sound files. This new iteration also include screen captures of the Facebook posts, Twitter tweets, and YouTube chat that took place during the live performance. Taken together they document the work as well as the readers' and audience's experience with the works.