An interactive dance and media performance conceived and directed by Klaus Obermaier, in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Futurelab, featuring Desirée Kongerød and Matthew Smith. APPARITION takes interactive performance to another level through the creation of a unique stage work integrating live performance, sound, projection and an interactive system comprising real-time image generation and computer vision.
Computational processes that model and simulate real-world physics create a kinetic space where the beauty and dynamics of the human body and its movement quality are extended and transferred into the virtual world. These two main areas of research, the interactive digital system as performance partner and the creation of an immersive kinetic space, form the artistic framework for APPARITION.
The objective of this experiment was to provide dancers with a space in which to make music based on motion and color. I wanted dancers to be able to create their own music instead of dance to a preset track. This demonstration features a dance space in which dancers create patterns of music using different colored umbrellas. Through a video interface connected to a program I wrote, the space is sectioned into a 4x4 grid, making 16 empty patterns available for the dancers, each linked to a separate sound patch. These patterns vary in length and octave range. This essentially turns the dance space into a sound creation canvas. The dancers use colored umbrellas to "paint" this sound canvas with sound.
re(PER)curso shows that experience and meaning offer a continuous stream of interpretation and re-interpretation that can be deconstructed and reconstructed in different realities and dimensions. The performance combines art and technology. Narrative, music and dance will interact and fuse with real time synthetic music composition, video art, 3D computer graphics, animated characters and landscapes.
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