You and Me

Process

2008-04-30T17:26:00.000-07:00

Our professor, Mike Patterson suggested that we go through all our footage and find the best images to assemble the interactive experience we would like to tell. This storyboard is a combination of DAY 1 & DAY 2 shoot days. This is only a fraction of some of the images that we wanted to explore more in depth to find moments of distortion, beauty, & intimacy.

DAY 2 shoot Galit Friedlander & Kaitlin Guerra-Shaner

2008-04-30T15:53:00.000-07:00

Maya Deren "Meshes in the Afternoon"

2008-03-30T21:20:00.000-07:00

ideas for the interactivity of the ZML:
creating an optical illusion with silhouettes that intersect with a dancer that then intersect with the user...

listen to her spoken word!!!

March 16th, 2008 DAY 1 "you and me," dancers Kaitlin Guerra-Shaner & Kingsley Irons

2008-03-24T02:30:00.000-07:00

Day 1 was a success! Special thanks to our talented and amazing dancers and crew for contributing your time and energy to this project: Kaitlin Guerra-Shaner, Kingsley Irons, Michael Patterson and Bethany Sparks.

Video 1

2008-03-11T18:01:00.000-07:00

Here is some test footage with Andrea moving in, then out of, the frame. Also, the footage has been blended with a yellow solid in AE to create a yellow, glowing silhouette.

sound link

2008-03-10T16:54:00.001-07:00

http://missingpixel.net/v5/gallery.html

progress3

2008-03-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

progress2

2008-03-10T16:34:00.001-07:00

Progress

2008-03-10T16:19:00.000-07:00

The Venue - ZML

2008-03-10T16:10:00.000-07:00

http://interactive.usc.edu/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq5jgFBbx3g&feature=related

The venue we will be using, the ZML, has three (3) walls that are covered with screens. There are fourteen (14) screens in all - five (5) on the left and right walls and four (4) along the center wall. We will be able to project onto twelve (12) of these.

kara walker meets loie fuller

2008-02-18T00:26:00.000-08:00

Joining ideas:

Themes-

Silhouette
Body (hidden and exposed)
Liquid
Movement
Black and White

LOIE FULLER:

inspired by Fuller:

KARA WALKER:

another iteration

2008-02-14T15:55:00.001-08:00

noise

2008-02-07T15:03:00.000-08:00

IDEA
One side of the room is filled with white milk, the other a liquid of a contrasting color. Participants are separated in two teams and their objective is to keep their side pure. As bits or viscous streams of one side travel to the other side they begin to make dissonant noise. This noise travels with the objects. Teams collaborate to keep the noise from overriding and invading their side.

USE
Wii as input
Maybe Processing to generate visuals (?)
Or what would be best for sound? Max/MSP might work better

Mami Wata

2008-02-04T16:16:00.001-08:00

tentatively "explorations of WATA"

Through this interactive piece we will explore the parallel existence, and intersections, of industrial histories and African mythologies and modernity. The world will be populated by uncanny combinations of the exotic and the technological, the pure and the polluted, the past and the future. Users interact with the piece by learning gestures that will correlate to changing animation/ footage and shifting video rates.

Technologies, methodologies & techniques to explore:

Concept
Mami Wata as commodity/ deity
Globalization
popular cultural icons
water: ocean, lakes, rivers, streams
Utopia / Dystopia

Technologies
MAX/MSP
Adobe Premiere
Photoshop
Film / Editing techniques

Methods
Time
Gestural body movements
Choreography
Body Movement / Screen movement

Techniques
Underwater footage
Green Screen

Images
Wiki image of Mami Wata
American Museum of Natural History - "Creatures of the Deep"

Dance Videos
Yemaya - Orisha
Oshua
fused Afro-uban & Afro-Brazilian secular dance formsC

Bibliography
In progress