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REACTIVE STAGE is an interactive visual media space for dancing performances, made during the workshop of technology, image and movement (with Toni Mira and David Dalmazo) at La Caldera in Barcelona.
A graphic mutating shape follows the dancer and interacts with her, through a tracking system that receives both position and size information. The color and comlexity of the shape form are also influenced by audio analysis.
The shape is projected over tree translucent screens in front of the dancer giving the viewer the impression of a tree-dimensional shape, a visual media space within which the dancer is immerced.
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Concept & Direction :: Rodrigo Carvalho, Daphne Polyzos
Dancer ::…
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REACTIVE STAGE is an interactive visual media space for dancing performances, made during the workshop of technology, image and movement (with Toni Mira and David Dalmazo) at La Caldera in Barcelona.
A graphic mutating shape follows the dancer and interacts with her, through a tracking system that receives both position and size information. The color and comlexity of the shape form are also influenced by audio analysis.
The shape is projected over tree translucent screens in front of the dancer giving the viewer the impression of a tree-dimensional shape, a visual media space within which the dancer is immerced.
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Concept & Direction :: Rodrigo Carvalho, Daphne Polyzos
Dancer ::…
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SALA DE MAQUINAS (Engine Room) is an audiovisual interactive installation, which aims to reflect on the idea of the reuse of what we consider obsolete. As much the space as the technology can be transformed and have a new usage, they can generate a new discourse.
In this case the space (the old factory), the technology (the TVs) and people articulate a current proposal that takes form through an audiovisual installation. An electronic oscillator is connected to an open circuit, in a way that when the user touches the two metal bars electricity passes through him, the circuit closes and sound is produced. The human body becomes an electrical resistance therefore the user is able to vary the frequency of the sound.
The old modified TVs receive these audio signals and they interpret them as an oscilloscope producing all kinds of different…
“Sala de Máquinas” (Engine Room) is an audiovisual interactive installation, which intends to reflect on the idea of the reutilization of what we have acknowledged as obsolete...in this case old modified TVs that react to sound!
An electronic oscillator is connected to an open circuit, in a way that when the user touches 2 metal bars he/she himself/herself becomes the electrical resistance therefore being able to vary the frequency of sound.
The old modified TVs react to this sound as an oscilloscope having all kinds of different patterns and reactions.
FESTIVAL VISUAL BRASIL // BARCELONA 2010
Daphne Polyzos, Jordi Planas, Miguel Neto, Rodrigo Carvalho
video footage by :: Silvio Teixeira & Juliana Mori (thanks ;) )
video edit :: Rodrigo Carvalho
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(de)CONSTRUCTION is a short film based on a fragment of the book "Steppenwolf" by Hermann Hesse.
The protagonist finds himself in a dreamlike and confusing scenery within which he meets a chess player who invites him to play.
In this chess game he faces his memories, his different "selves", and finally he reconstructs himself using the different pieces of his personality.
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Backsounds from Radiator.Aphex Twin
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InterZone is an audiovisual reactive installation, made for public transition spaces (such as metro tunnels, passageways, public stairs, ...).
It is based on "the Zone" environment depicted by Tarkovsky in the film "Stalker". It is a post-apocalyptic space that does not adhere to normal laws of physics as we know them- a place where space-time "anormalies" and unexplained phenomena occur.
It is a work about the convergence of physical space with the virtual. Through projection mapping techniques, we pretend to create a projected immersive space and play with distortions of perspective, light, time and space.
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sound loops by Alva Noto / Ryoji Ikeda
ambient sound by Miguel Neto
Rodrigo…
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