| Thecla
Schiphorst, acclaimed Canadian choregrapher, software designer and multimedia artist
graced the third CyberArts Festival with an unprecedented performance incorporating
intelligent lighting, video, music, dance, and vocals. This work, entitled "Escape is Out of the
Question" was performed live in front of an original video-projected scene, with
floor-to-ceiling midi triggers embedded in spring-suspended lycra shafts. These triggers
enabled her to play original music elements by Barry Truax, as she danced her way through
a successful intermedia experiment.
Voice sensors: Michael Century; Kinetic sensors:
Martin Gotfrit; Lighting design: Louis-Phillipe Demers; Technical direction: John
Crawford; Producer: Diana Conway |
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CyberArt Gallery, one of the most popular installations two years running were the
PHSColograms, from Art to the Nth, from Chicago. Imagine robust brighter-than-real color in images with spatiality much like that
of less realistic Holograms.
More importantly, the imagery communicated vivid
messages of poetic beauty and scientific wonder.
A great and memorable exhibit. |
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| Scenes
from the Galleries and Exhibit Halls of the various CyberArts events. |
Musicians and visual artists meld their crafts
Classic shot of a youngster captivated by virtual characters (wonder what he's
doing today?)
Virtual Reality at CyberArts I
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an introduction by Dominic Milano, the audience at the first CyberArts conference (LA
Biltmore Hotel) heard a keynote speech delivered by Ted Nelson. Xanadu lives! |
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a clowning show producer who really loves his job. |
Gladhanding show manager welcomes international visitors
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collaboration with the band D'Cuckoo, Marci Javril triggered MIDI sequences by breaking
light beams (The Light Dancer) while she danced. Always the professional, Marci used a variety of costumes and props to set moods
and take us through a journey where we'd not been before. |
D'Cuckoo's debut before the cybertribe
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| Merging
his musical virtuosity with virtuality and penchant for exploring the tech-edge,
composer/conductor Tod Machover (MIT) demonstrated an entirely new dimension for music
with his "hyperinstruments." Here
the conductor modifies parameters of the sound output with a data-glove, while live
musicians play the score.
In another performance, Tod performed a live
score to accompany a computer animation premiere from Yoichiro Kawaguchi. |
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| Neural
interface? Technologists, Hugh Lusted and Ben Knapp blow away the closing-day audience at
the first CyberArts conference when they demonstrate the Biomuse, a device that commands
the computer by thoughts, glances, or other simple muscle movements. |
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Gallery One |
Gallery Two |
