Projects

Cutouts of 5 performers appear on a blood spattered off-white background.

The Antigone Play by Tabia Lau, HAGS by Aaron Jan

Presented Nov, 2020 Online for Theatre@York

Content Types:
 - Chat room
 - Computer generated imagery
 - Zoom meeting
Technologies:
 - OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio
 - Skype
 - Twitter
Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Academic Research
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Two online plays commissioned by the Department of Theatre in the School of the Arts Media Performance and Design at York University

Avatars for Toasterlab team members gathered in a virtual play yard in AltSpace at PXR2020

Produced by Single Thread Theatre Co. in association with Electric Company Theatre

Presented Oct 2, 3, 9, 10, 2020 AltSpace VR

Content Types:
 - Chat room
 - Google Drive folders and docs
 - VR app
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - AltSpaceVR
 - Google Drive
 - HowlRound.tv
 - Jotform
 - Occulus Go
 - Trello
 - Unity (game engine)
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Community engagement
 - Streaming Video
 - Virtual Conference
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Conference Presentation

Summary of Project:

Virtual Reality Symposium for Canadian artists and XR technologists, exploring creation and performance in XR.

A monitor shows video of a scene while creative professionals work on set for The Right Way in the background.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Stazione Utopia

Presented Sep 15 - 21, 2020 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - 180 camera
 - CleanBox
 - Expo Player
 - Occulus Go
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Single audience immersive theatre experience with a VR prelude.

Screen shot of a 360 video bubble. There is a prominent tree and the photographers head visible against the blue background from the sky.

STEPS (Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space)

Presented Summer 2020 Rowntree Mills Park, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Locative media map of 360 video/audio content sourced from community engagement.

Arial view of event at Alcatraz

Dancing Earth

Presented October 8, 2018 at Alcatraz Multiple locations across Western North America

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - Binaural Audio
Technologies:
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Documentary Film
 - Geolocated XR content
 - Promenade performance outdoors
Development Stage:
 - Academic Research
 - Community Engagement
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

This project involved capturing documentary footage of Dancing Earth’s creative process as they developed a piece that was meant to premiere on Indigenous Peoples Day on Alcatraz Island.

A technician wears a VR headset with reflective lenses while looking at a mobile device. The reflection of the device is visible on the visor forming a video loop.

Theatre Passe Muraille with Toasterlab and Cohort

Presented Sep 2020 Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Pass-through video in VR headset
Technologies:
 - Cohort Bridge
 - iOS Mobile
 - Qlab
Audience Experience:
Development Stage:
 - Workshop

Summary of Project:

This workshop explored ways to improve access to ASL interpretation & translation during live performances through the use of digital technologies …

Screen shot from performance of Orestes. A woman wearing a gaming headset with attached microphone looks at the screen in a video chat window. The top portion of four other people in the video chat are visible across the bottom of the image.

Written by Rick Roberts, Directed by Richard Rose

Presented Feb 3 - 14, 2021 Live Online via the Tarragon Theatre website

Content Types:
 - Chat room
 - Composite video
 - Computer generated imagery
Technologies:
 - CineMiranda
 - Cleanfeed
 - Green screen (Chroma key)
 - LIVELAB
 - Raspberry Pi
 - Smart Slider Plugin
 - Vimeo Video Player
 - Wordpress (content management system)
 - Zoom
Audience Experience:
 - Chat room interaction
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Live web-based performance of Euripides’ genre-defying classic hacked, warped and chopped — rebooted for the electronic age.

Screen shot taken on broadcasting pc during rehearsal showing OBS composite video and Skype call with dancers.

by Dancing Earth

Presented Jun 18, 2020 Livestreaming on HowlRound.tv

Content Types:
 - Composite video
 - Computer generated imagery
Technologies:
 - Green screen (Chroma key)
 - HowlRound.tv
 - OBS (Open Broadcaster Software) Studio
 - Skype
 - YouTube
 - Zoom
Audience Experience:
 - Streaming Video
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

A dance performance composite video broadcast live on howlround.tv and YouTube.

Screen shot from using Maptool

Andrew Sempere, The Place Lab Ltd.

Presented

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Binaural Audio
 - Computer generated imagery
 - Photographs
Technologies:
 - Android Mobile
 - Bespoke Mobile App
 - Google Cardboard
 - iOS Mobile
 - Maptool
 - Web App
 - YouTube
Audience Experience:
 - Community engagement
 - Geolocated XR content
Development Stage:
 - Community Engagement
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An MIT-licensed computational tool for generating locative media projects, Maptool can be used as the basis for locative storytelling.

Two people in white painters overalls stand in front of a paint splattered wall.

Creator and Director: Daniele Bartolini, Produced by Daniele Bartolini, DopoLavor Teatrale (DLT), Instituto Italiano di Cultura

Presented Sep 18 - 29, 2019 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - 360 Video
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
 - Promenade performance outdoors
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An urban immersive format designed for one audience member at a time to interact with characters hidden among the pedestrians in the downtown core and installations including dance, music, and painting.

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