Elements saught:
Technology, Human (living,
copresent audience and actor),
Structure (vs. total interactivity), Verbal
(see About website for more)
| Group/ DPA listing | Production | Technology | Potentially
Missing Elements T, H, S, V |
Description | Link |
| AlienNation | Before Night Falls | projection, motion sensing and capture | V | Exploration of the body (visceral, virtual, memory, orafices, etc.) In two versions, theatre/dance, and installation | dead link |
| AlienNation | North
by South and East by West |
motion sensing, projection |
V | Choreography based on experimentation with nodes or knots of resistance within the body and relating to sensor data that triggers programmed sound models. The piece explores limitation as well as the parallels between the dancers and displayed photosculptures. | dead link |
| AlienNation | Migrated Bodies - Migbot | projection, multisite performance | H. | "MIRAK is a new sci-fi opera" about a Russian cosmonaut abandoned in her space ship who hallucinates as she probes a "sky object" and "recognize her reality (her death)". --DPA site | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/migbot2.html |
| AlienNation | Vespucci | projection, multisite | V sung |
.Prototype for Mirak."The installation is performed in 4 different physical spaces through which the audience moves. The movement is like a dance. The audience encounters movement scenarios in film, sculpture, remote digital movies, sonic landscapes. The fictional content of the scenarios requires time shifts (from past to future, future to present)." --DPA site | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/vespucci.html |
| AlienNation | Mirak | video | V digital opera |
"The
performance turns familiar opera conventions upside down, integrating movement
and narration on stage with video projection, 3D animation, sculptures,
and an electronic score performed live by an orchestra and three singers."
--DPA |
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/vespucci.html |
| AlienNation | Live Bodies Lively Machines | projection | V |
A "10-day intensive laboratory involved participants from all visual and performing arts areas, and its particular focus was directed at the integration of visual art processes, media arts and computer technologies, and music and performance compositions and choreographies." --DPA site | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~orpheus/proj.html |
| Andrea Polli | Gape | sensors | V | eyes blink-out words | http://homepage.interaccess.com/~apolli/ |
| Andrea Polli | May I help you? | sensors | VS | fetishes confessed by participants on video shown to others | http://homepage.interaccess.com/~apolli/ |
| Andrea Polli | Rapid Fire | sensors | V art or theatre? | eye movement | http://homepage.interaccess.com/~apolli/ |
| Andrea Polli | Tight | projection | V | climbers suspended with projections | http://homepage.interaccess.com/~apolli/ |
| Anita Ponto | Baggage | DAT | art/theatre | dark monologue and spazems before death | dead link |
| Anita Ponto | Dies Irae | projection | V performance art |
Woman hung by her hair -just touching the ground- voices are heard but they are not her's (in her head). | dead link |
| Anita Ponto | Say Something | projection | V performance art |
Mumbling- face projected onto performer. | dead link |
| Anita Ponto | Seen. Unsaid. | projection | HV art/theatre |
Woman infront of movie projections -compelled to lipsink - woman as machine - 9 min. | dead link |
| Arthur Elsenaar | Emoting On The Web | video confrencing (wires to control facial mussles) | V, H (audience?) | Romote interactors manipulate the facial expressions of an actor (via?) | http://www.iaaa.nl/artifacial/ |
| Blast Theory | 10 Backwards | video projection | . | A woman travels back in time -returns with dejavu. | http://www.blasttheory.co.uk/ |
| Company in Space | Home Not Alone | Also web input controls actors | HS | "Watch performers on screen, change the scene, adjust lights and soundtrack, or send a personal message to the actor. Re-create the site at will, but remember...you are not alone."--DPA site A web component links action to a "global" audience. | http://www.companyinspace.com/front/cis_fs.htm |
| Company in Space | Incarnate 2 | animation, video confrencing | V dance/theatre |
A duel site performance between Hong Cong and Australia with a score "by the performers' movements" and visually mixed in real time. --DPA site | http://www.companyinspace.com/front/cis_fs.htm |
| Company in Space | Trial By Video | animation, projection, motion sensing | V | An
enviromental theatre/peformance/
installation piece with both live and telepresent participation.
Held in Australia in tunnels, abandoned buildings etc. but accesible
remotely. Very interactive. |
http://www.companyinspace.com/front/cis_fs.htm (shallow link) |
| Computer Research Group, Nottingham University | Avatar Farm | webcast, animation, VRML | H | TV avatars read by actors/ audience. | not
a direct link, http://www.companyinspace.com/front/cis_fs.htm |
| The Computer Res | MASSIVE | avatars, vr | HS (poetry presentation within the VR environment) | Virtual world allowing poetry to be experienced with avatars, ten participants at a time. | http://www.crg.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/Now96/ |
| Corpos Informaticos | Entrasite | video confrencing | V, H (local audience?) |
Exploration of the body and machines in this case, telepresence, with members of the group performing and interacting via videoconfrence from the US, Brasil and France. "The numeric body (telepresence) imposes itself broken, the quotidian seems to draw the other off from virtual space. Though desire, though pleasure, though encounter, the bell-ring answer is physical, immediate, automatic, and rupture." -DPA | http://corpos.org/telepresence/ |
| Corpos Informaticos | Infoporto | video confrencing | HSV | same discription | http://corpos.org/telepresence/ |
| Corpos Informaticos | Media@terra | video confrencing | HSV | same discription | http://corpos.org/telepresence/ |
| Dance Construction | Uhah * Tukuhnikivatz | projection | V? | The danced story of native american sense of nature (spirits) landscapes projected on moving sets. | dead link |
| David Rokeby | Very Nervous System | motion sensing | HS text, live, before audience? |
A performance of the the Lovelace/ Burbage story staged inside an installation based on or resembling Burbage's Differenece Engine. | dead link |
| David Saltz | Beckett Space | video projection, motion sensing | H installation | An interactive installation space featuring performances of Beckett's works Ohio Impromptu, Eh, Joe, Not I, Rockaby, Play, Come and Go, Breath and Quad as well as an environment called Gadot Space. | http://www.mindspeak.com/schrum/TICS/beccyb.html |
| Desperate Optimists | Urban Shots | cd, projetion | S- Structured event, happening? | Staged in Germany in an abandoned tower with "an international cast and crew of over 150 people, Urban Shots included live video feed, a 9 minute 16mm film, stunts, a live band, dancing troupes and specially trained police dogs." --DPA site | .http://www.desperateoptimists.com/pages/urban.shtml |
| Diller + Scofidio | Indigestion | projection | HV | A dialogue between man and woman over dinner table projected on to a wall -audience members can control the projection views of hands etc. | dead link |
| Don Ritter | Oh toi qui vis la-bas! | audio triggers video | H (live singer?), V (sung vs. spoken) | Live singing (perhaps speach) triggers video play. | http://aesthetic-machinery.com/ |
| Ellen Bromberg | Falling to Earth | Arizona's intelligent stage | V | A piece on the body and death. | http://www.intelligentstage.com/performances/fte/fte.slides.html |
| George Coates Performance Works | Twisted Pairs | uncertain | T | "An opera about an Amish Farmgirl who finds a solar-powered laptop and joins a para-media militia."' --DPA website | http://www.georgecoates.org/previousshows/twisted1.html (shallow link) |
| Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre | The Crusible Project | teleconfrencing | H performed? |
US kids worked with playwright Arthur Miller and kids in UK to rehearse the play. (Was it performed, who was the audience?) | http://www.gertstein.org/firsthome.html |
| Half- angel, Richard Povall, | The Secret Project | motion sensing | V dance-theatre |
A dance theatre piece developed by groups in Canada and Ireland " about the idea of the secret, personal, cultural, political and Irish" using "motion-sensing systems which connect movement with sound, text and video". --DPA site | http://socks.ntu.ac.uk/archive/halfangel/secret.html |
| Hanindah Zainomum | Double Happiness | web, chat | S | Reality-based courtship, voyerism and community following two asian brides and two white grooms. A social experiment. | http://www.doublehappines2.com/ |
Heliograph Productions Wavicle, Sarah Neville |
Fake | web | V more info, dead link | "This performance explored notions of 'live' and 'virtual' performance through artificial constructs such as live performance and pre-recorded video and live situations provided by an internet connection that delivered actors lines on a computer live on stage. The performance was accompanied by a hip hop DJ and a TJ or Text Jockey who fed text from rehearsals mixed with a live response into the performance." | |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | ACTG | intellegent stage | V dance |
"DNA: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), cytosine (C) are extracted from a random ordered list of keywords associated with some of the thematic starting points of this project -- in particular the human genome. This extraction occurs at 8 second intervals." --DPA site | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | Virtual Partnering | intellegent stage, webcast | V dance |
A choreographed peice with three dancers on one dance stage and one on the "Intelligent Stage." The quartet was linked by video with an 8 second delay. --DPA site | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ (link down) |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | Twins | intellegent stage. webcast | V dance |
Touch and intimacy was the theme for this live and video dance piece. | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ (link down) |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | Memory | intellegent stage, motion sensing | V dance |
This dance piece featured "a trio on the Intelligent Stage space improvises using movement derived from still images of body parts. . . a single dancer also improvises with movements and floor patterns that correspond to animated projections." --DPA | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ (link down) |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | Contact | intellegent stage, motion sensing, broadcast | V dance |
A dance piece in which "Contact: Touch, intimacy, presence and play are all explored in a closing contact improvisation with moving camera." --DPA site | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ (link down) |
| Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona University | Outside | intellegent stage | V dance |
Two dancers with cameras leave their physical dance spaces for the others' 10 minutes away. Their spaces receive this transmission. | http://isa.asu.edu/cellbytes/ (link down) |
| Isabelle
Jenniches, Riek Westerhof ,Karen Levi,Radboud Mens |
klein getijden boek | projection | S theatre/dance, spoken or only visual/musical information? |
A
performance based on "The medieval books of hours, containing prayers
attached to the time of day and used as a framework to structure daily life,
... a special diary that ...attached to the exact time in hours and minutes
when they occurred. Bundled together, they make a complete new day, fictive
in that it never happened in this order. In the theatrical setting, the text functions as the clockwork; depending on its speed, the performance will last between 24 and 48 minutes." -- DPA |
http://www.9nerds.com/isabelle/ |
| Jack Toolin | You Don't See That You Don't See | web, CD-ROM | T- Not enough tech –subject but not used in show | Thematically linked to the subject of artificial intelligence, this scripted piece incorporates ball room dance, magic, and the metaphor of a chinese room, "In the end, YDSTYDS makes commentary on our struggle to understand what we observe, to grasp reality." --DPA | http://www.c5corp.com/venues/ydstyds/index.shtml |
| Keith Armstrong | #14 | projections | V | Projections on drained swimming pool with performers in the hollow, and audience above. | http://www.outlook.com.au/keith/projbase.htm |
| Keith Armstrong | Uncertain Circle | VRML, projection | S (High interactivity) | "Uncertain was a solo, Virtual Reality-based performance developed in collaboration with electronic musician Andrew Brown which examined how contemporary conceptions of cyberspace might have the potential for fostering a multiplicity of selves."--DPA | http://www.outlook.com.au/keith/index.htm |
| Kunstwerk-Blend | String | webcast | S | Video triggered by participants, web casted? | http://www.ad406.dial.pipex.com/kunstwerkblenddetails.htm |
| La Fura dels Baus | Euripides Bacchae | workshop and performance | Unknown- in progress | "The
starting point of the "Bacchantes" workshop, is the liaison between
the God Dionisius, main role of the drama, and the phenomenon of capitalism."-- website |
http://www.ad406.dial.pipex.com/transforms.htm |
| La Fura dels Baus | Martirio de San Sebastian | web | V | A retelling of a martyr's story. "A free adaptation of Jean-Claude Debussy's musical work: In this staging the destiny of Sebastian the martyr ... Our martyr could be mistaken about everything, except the pain which he feels in his desperation before the meaninglessness of a normal life. Which is, on the other hand, the only life we know."--From DPA |
http://www.lafura.com/eng/operas/martir.htm |
| Le Corps Indice | Le Sang Des Reseaux | webcast, motion sensing | V | Distributed performance' several sites. | dead link |
| Liss Fain | Quary | projection | V | Very exciting piece w/ dance & sculpture w/ live and internet audience and sculpture working in nature via satellite - very beautiful piece with nature and technology. | http://www.lissfaindance.org/ |
| Madelyn Starbuck | honoria in ciberspazio | web | V | Opera with input from internet users on relationships (good costumes -one nice video clip). | http://www.cyberopera.org/elaine.html |
| Marcela, Okretic | Brainscore | ekg- eyescanners -projection | VS | Performers with EKG/eye sensors control the play of video/avatars. | http://www.brainscore.org/intro.html |
| Marlena Corcoran | Stay (Tuned) | webcast, moo | V -Two parts, one performative the other primarily interactive. | A performance in two parts, one "live" including song and dance, sign language, another part interactive moo (text only). The theme is somehow related to the three magi? | http://socks.ntu.ac.uk/archive/corcoran/tuned-1.htm |
| Michel Lemieux, Vict | Territories, |
vr, animation, projection | SV | Mayan Dream poetry, telivison of the future, a virtual enviroment. | dead link |
| MIT | Brain Opera Peformance | sensors | V musical performance |
MIT sound experiment - installation with orchestration, touch floor, libretto on brain. | http://brainop.media.mit.edu/first-page.html |
| moti roti | Reality Bites | projections | H projection with live actors or cd? |
Four British/Indian women's take on Bollywood "Led by the
award winning company moti roti, young Asian women of Nottingham create
a hybrid of comic-strip, picture book, short films and funky animations,
weaving a web of stories about their lives....Audience intervention alters
the story and determines alternative outcomes." --From DPA |
http://www.motiroti.com/pages/index_flash.html |
| Oliver Yan Kiu Wang, ,Bilderwerfer | Chat in Progress | chat provides material/story for actors | H. | This performance utalizes text chat "as well as video chat in a theatratical event. Every night new texts are projected and therefore the theatrical text is changed night by night according to the chats that are going on in any given night. This babel of speeches and conversations by ordinary people from all over the world."--DPA site | http://bilderwerfer.com/ |
| Paulo Henrique | de Agora Em Dante | scanning body, projection video | V | The body is scanned, and divided between large video monitors. | http://paulo_henrique.tripod.com/ |
| Paulo Henrique | Minimally Invasive | operational camera, projection, chat | VS perfomers with/without text? |
Operating on the body without cutting, performers are inside eachothers bodies with cameras. | http://paulo_henrique.tripod.com/ |
| Paulo Henrique | Terra Plana (Flat Earth) | digital display, sound | HV has live spoken text in miniumum, live actor? unable to see clips on website |
A performance piece on communication, creating parallel worlds between
live, projected, and teleprent performers and their words. "Live
collaboration of movement, image, voice and sound... the performer says
to the audience: "I am not in good shape and cannot continue this
piece, I will be finished by now - my collaborators will continue the
piece. - and he introduces several artists from Lisbon, Madrid, Paris,
New York"--From DPA |
http://paulo_henrique.tripod.com/ |
| Paulo Henrique | Contract With The Skin | projections of digitized body slice | Unknown, not enough info on site only photos and ideas not descriptions. | Live performance with digitized sliced body projected. | dead link |
| Paulo Henrique | Terra Plana (Flat Earth) | . | V
text included |
"Technology was used to extend some creative ideas related with communication/ space/ geography/ culture/ presence/ distribution/ access. It was also used as an altar so as to replace religion."---DPA site (See DPA for more complete description.) | http://paulo_henrique.tripod.com/ (shallow link) |
| Philip Mallory, Ralph Lemon Jones,Katherine Milton | Mirrors and Smoke | video, animation, projection, VR environment | HVS | A v irtual performance space, highly interactive. | dead link |
| Plain Text Players | Birth of the Christ Child | internet chat, projection | H projected chat infront of audience |
Audience watches actors chat lines on projected screen. | |
| Plain Text Players | The Cadide Campaign | Moo | H | "Candide aimed for the Highest Office in the Land. For winners and losers alike, it was a fast-moving, unpredictable, and sometimes chaotic free-for-all in the best tradition of American politics."--DPA | http://yin.arts.uci.edu/~players/ |
| PPS Dance | Poles | projection | V dance |
Technology and performers "challenge the audience's perception of the real and virtual dancer leading us into a world of sheer fascination" drawing on universal human concepts such as hope and tolerance.---DPA Site | dead link |
| Riek Westerhof | O+E | video survalence, web | SV more info needed |
Performance/art based on Orpheus story set in the subway, unclear if actors are used as participants or random people wandering into camera range. | http://www.9nerds.com/isabelle/OE/index.html |
| Riverbed | Bi-Ped, | motion capture and animaton | V Dance |
"... Candide aimed for the Highest Office in the Land. For winners and losers alike, it was a fast-moving, unpredictable, and sometimes chaotic free-for-all in the best tradition of American politics."--DPA site | dead link |
| Scott C. Durkin | Shared Identity | webcast, video | HV | The performer (Scott in NY) performs actions in tandom with his twin on th e west coast and emails people with his name, raising issues of time, and shared idenity. (see DPA for more) | dead link |
| Sean Young | Transit Lounge | animation, motion capture, projection | SH | Actor’s voice enlivens 9 animated characters- and the outcome is effected by audience. | http://www.outlook.com.au/keith/index.htm |
| STARBOARD, Globe Theatre- a robotic pagent | Ship’s Detective + others | CU-see me, robots | H live and robotic elements |
Robot actors move about and scripts are read by some live actors. | http://artnetweb.com/theoricon/globe.html http://artnetweb.com/theoricon/austria/ http://www.artnetweb.com/wortzel/ |
| Supreme Particles | Binary Ballistic Ballet | DAT, performer viewed projection | V dance with text |
"The choreography is generally pre-determined up to 70% of the time. The remaining 30% will be influenced/inspired by the computer-system, which means that the dancers receive the information from one of the computer monitors and immediately transform it into dance-patterns." --DPA | http://www.particles.de/paradocs/index.html |
| Terence Tieman, Optik | In The Presence of People | projection | S |
Four performers doing own narratives at once, with no focal point. "There is no pre-planned unified arrangement to be broken (by the spectators) or kept in place (by the performers)."--DPA | http://www.optikperformance.com/ |
| The Anatomical Theatre | Subject:Matter | animation, motion capture, projection | V science dance |
Dancers in full face/body cover, dance as atoms/quarks. | http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/ Stage/1321/subjectmatter.html |
| The Anatomical Theatre, Carl Weidmann | 2081 | projection | V dance with words |
Dance, based on story by Kurt Vonagut where everyone in society is forcibly made equal via handicaps. | http://www.geocities.com/Broadway /Stage/1321/index.html |
| The Olimpias | Traces | projection | V dance/installation |
Incorperating video reinactment of a dance/mental workshop..."Traces emerged out of two sets of border-skirmishes: the relationship between community arts and contemporary art practice, and the representational battlefields of mental health." --DPA Site | http://web.bryant.edu/~pkuppers/ |
| Theater As Digital Activity (TADA), Children's Musical Theater San Jose | Our Tree | web script | HT web-chat script, no tech in performance |
A musical whose script/play was created shaped by the input of internet children (about 6 families). | dead link |
| Theater As Digital Activity (TADA), Children's Musical Theater San Jose | Persephone | web script | T web-chat script, no tech in performance |
Persephone
in Concert: May13-14, 2003 (San Jose) "Young people from around the world are working with our theater professionals on CMT's next World Premiere: Persephone, based on the Greek myth of the seasons. Created online through Theater as Digital Activity, this musical promises to be a timeless tale of growing up that strikes a chord with parents and children everywhere." ---website |
http://www.sjcmt.org/prod_pers.html |
| Theater As Digital Activity (TADA), Children's Musical Theater San Jose [biography] | 2101 |
web script | T web-chat script, no tech in performance, musical |
Kids production of colonization of Mars, internet input created script. | http://www.sjcmt.org/prod_pers.html |
| Tim
Etchells Forced Entertainment |
Void Spaces Exhibition Catalogue | installation | HSV | (See DPA description)Varied event many collaborators dealing with humanistic issues from phobias to sex, uncertain performance format. | dead link |
| Toni Dove | Spectropia | animation, motion sensing, video | H | "Spectropia, an interactive movie shot on digital video, is a time travel drama set in the future and in NYC 1931 after the stock market crash. It uses the metaphor of supernatural possession to explore new constuctions of subjectivity and the disorders brought on by consumer culture and emerging technologies. Unlike traditional movies, Spectropia is 'performed' interactively (by trained performers and ordinary viewers) using a unique mix of motion sensors, speech recognition and synthesis, and vocal triggers." --DPA site | http://www.funnygarbage.com/dove/index.html --miss link |
| Troika Ranch | Vera's Body | proection | V | The performance takes place after Vera's death in flashes from her life where she experienced life viscerally-bodily. "Reflections on the life of a 99 year old woman who made the jump from mind to body" --website. | http://www.troikaranch.org/works.html |
| Troika Ranch | The Electronic Disterbance | projection, videoconfrence, remote voice control | V | Exploring the digital body (electronic contact)…based on a book with the same name. Linked performance with performers in NY, LA and New Mexico. A singer's voice remotely triggered lighting. "The piece explores the liberating aspects of this "electronic" body, like freedom from time or gravity, as well as the more sinister implications of a body that might be easily manipulated by external forces"---website | http://www.troikaranch.org/works.html |
| Vakuum TV | Dedicated | video | V | A variety of themes/elements related to modern questions of capitalism, freedom, the gods, etc. represended in a mix of live performance, digital photography and film. | .http://socks.ntu.ac.uk/archive/vakuumtv/video.html |
| Vakuum TV | Vakuum TV at the VIDEOLOGY | video, projection | SV some performances included |
"The Human Keyboard" a bunch of people running around with keys on their heads….video taped - with projections. (It looks like a party- with no focal point.) | http://socks.ntu.ac.uk/archive/vakuumtv/video.html |
| Vacuum TV | The Mechanical Television | animation, projection, video | Unknown | (German) | http://vakuumtv.c3.hu/ |
| Victor Pilon, Michel Lemieux | Le souffle de Pythagore | projection, animation, VR | V installation |
The
actors and animated characters share the stage through virtual projection
leading "the audience . . through the entire range of emotional experiences
associated with moving from complexity to oneness, from chaos to the birth
of noise and harmony." --DPA
site |
dead link |
| web | _fake | web | H | "This performance explored notions of 'live' and 'virtual' performance through artificial constructs such as live performance and pre-recorded video and live situations provided by an internet connection that delivered actors lines on a computer live on stage. The performance was accompanied by a hip hop DJ and a TJ or Text Jockey who fed text from rehearsals mixed with a live response into the performance."---DPA site | dead link |
| Webbed Feats | Bytes of Bryant Park | Web input for performance –public park | Unknown, need more info., some performances included theatre | Webcast performances in a community park. | http://www.webbedfeats.org/ |
| Ximena Cuevas | Corazon Sangrante (Bleeding Heart) | amimation | V folk song (and story?) |
A Chilean folk song sung and animated melodramatically. | dead link |
| Langcaster University's Between Nature Conference | Landscaping Women -Earth Stories | video | HV spoken info, audience presence |
A piece on nature and women, unclear if there is an audience. | http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/csec/bn.NSF/Webpages /Introduction?OpenDocument |
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