May 10 & 11 5pm-9pm
Spring Show 2005
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
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| ICI (Interactive Choreography Installation) | ||
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| Author(s): | Rotem Tashach |  |
| Instructor: | DuBois, Luke | |
| Class: | Live Image Processing and Performance | |
| URL: | http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~rzt204/lipp/IVI/index.html | |
| Documents: | Anna(JPEG) | |
| Keywords: | Interactive Video Installation, Choreography, Body politics, Embodiment of preception, Phenomenology | |
| An interactive video installation dealing with body politics where the viewer\'s motion and position in the space affects sound video and narrative and creates an interactive choreography. | ||
| A jitter patch will be running an interactive video installation using video-tracking as sensor for the viewer\'s position, direction and velocity in the space. These parameters will be used to affect how and when a video-dance is played. They will also affect the sound coming off the video. The viewer\'s position in the space will intermittently trigger short video loops that will be a secondary video layer. This layer will be a video addressing the viewer \'engaging them\' with directions, asking them to move right, left, faster, slower, stay in place etc. | ||
| Personal Statement: | I\'ve always felt that the traditional \'black box\' stage for dance
performance is one of the least adequate for experiencing something as live and as dynamic as dance. Since choreoography is a so much a bodily experience it only makes sense that it be experienced through movement. In this installation I\'m trying to shift the focus from a dancer as an expressive object to participating viewers that actively create the choreography by using their own bodies as interface. The video-dances will present situations captured on video. The nature of those situations is unclear and the viewer\'s \'job\' is to decipher \'what is going on\' by moving around. | |
| Background: | By using Video-Performance that interacts with the viewer, I wish to create a choreography between our movement and the projected narratives - a choreography of interpretation. This way we compose a narrative with our bodies.
I\'m interested in exploring how we step in or out of situations, the psychological choices we make in our everyday lives - to witness, to participate, to hide, to perform… We are used to experiencing most social interactions by standing face-to-face and in place. I\'m looking for mechanisms which will allow us to play with alternatives to being stationary; letting us break loose from the conventional face-to-face-staging we\'re used to. By \'subotaging\' our default of standing still (through software) we\'re encouraged to dynamically move around, play with different speeds, change our perspective and ultimately alter and re-direct the experience. | |
| Audience: | Anyone with the ability to move around a room.
The installation is designed more as a personal experience and will thus best fit a \'one-person-at-a-time\' formula. | |
| User Scenario: | As you walk into the space a projection of a video-dance turns on. The rate at which the video-dance plays depends on your velocity. When you slow down the video-dance slows and darkens, as you speed up it becomes clearer. Depending on where you are in the room small loops will fade in onto the primary continuous video layer. These short loops will address you directly asking you to stay in place, move in a certain direction, change speed etc. When you stand still the video either fades out or loops in a way which encourages you to keep moving, thus making the experience a choreography between you and the projected dance-situations.
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| Technical System Description: | An iSight or TRV camera hung at the top center of a room will be the movement, speed and position sensor. Alongside it there will be an infrared light source. The camera will be hooked up to a fast Mac/PC running a Jitter patch, which will be connected to a projector covered with an infrared filter so as to block out all changes in light that come from the projector. The patch will be hooked up to the existing sound system in the room.
The interface is the viewer\'s body and the space within which it moves. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | Maurice Blanchot, The Gaze of Orpheus (New York: Station Hill, 1981).
Vivian Sobchak, The Address of the Eye: A Phenomenology of Film Experience (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992). Merleau-Ponty, The Phenomenology of Perception, trans. Colin Smith (London: Routledge, 1996). The chapter \'The Spatiality of One\'s Own Body and Motility\', pp. 98-147 and the short section \'The Synthesis of One\'s Own Body\', pp. 148-53 are of particular relevance. | |
| Conclusions: | none as of yet. | |