Lisa
>Dear List:
>
>1)
>Who can give an 'objective' report on the premiere of Hand-drawn Spaces,
>Merce Cunningham's collaboration with Paul Kaiser at Riverbed at Siggraph
>on 20 July? (not the world premiere -- it was apparently shown last
>November in Ireland). I have
>
>2)
>There is an illustrative page on Riverbed's site
>http://www.riverbed.com/hds/master.htm. The project has involved:
>
>a. Biovision motion-capture -- 22 sensors, 8 optical trackers. The capture
>was done in the Biovision studio in San Fran with two company dancers.
>
>b. The Motion Flow Network designed by Unreal Pictures allows Cunningham to
>explore the infinite possibilities within a finite number of dance phrases.
>Cunningham choreographed 71 new phrases to use in such a network. Then,
>employing chance operations, he connected these phrases into new sequences
>of movement.
>
>c. A projection on 3 screens with sound and lighting which give illusion/
>sensation of characters passing from one screen to another.
>
>3)
>Quote from Siggraph Pages http://www.siggraph.org/s98/conference/sessions/
>
>"Hand-Drawn Spaces is a virtual performance in which dancers move across
>three projection screens and the spaces in between. The figures are modeled
>and rendered as three-dimensional sketches, and are animated by the
>intricate choreography of Merce Cunningham. The composition was created
>with motion fragments that were motion-captured, key-frame reduced,
>footstep-extracted and then assembled into long-format sequences with
>motion flow editing."
>
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>
>The project was presented at Siggraph in the context of the animation
>festival http://www.siggraph.org/s98/media/animation.html
>
>1)
>Quote from the Computer Animation Festival Program
>
>"This is extraordinary. It is mind changing. Computer animation is jumping
>off the screen. It runs through us and connects us through our senses,
>through our perceptions, through meaning and, experience. Technology no
>longer limits our animation. It now affords us aesthetic and methodic
>choices and the creative freedom that comes from that. These trends are
>strongly illustrated in the works selected for the SIGGRAPH 98 Computer
>Animation Festival."
>
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>
>Hand-Drawn Spaces tours now over the next year to Wexner Center for the
>Arts in Ohio, Fondacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Madrid. and Fondacio
>Serralves, Porto, Portugal
>
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>
>I have found most of the online references... am looking for reports from
>actual 'sightings' -- did anyone attend the 'artswire' workshop session
>with Riverbed March 28 1998? Incidently, that conference has produced a
>number of interesting 'reports' which are available online at
>http://www.artswire.org/circuits/conference_reports.html
>
>Scott
>
>
>
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Department of Dance
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