Computer generated imagery 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

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.

A performer in costume stands behind the audience member wearing a VR headset during a performance of Bury the Wren.

Created by Beth Kates & Neil Christensen

Presented Mar 29 - Apr 2, 2019 University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts Alchemy Festival of Student Work

Content Types:
 - Computer generated imagery
 - Pass-through video in VR headset
 - VR in headset
Technologies:
 - photogrammetry
 - RealityCapture
 - Unity (game engine)
 - VR headset
Audience Experience:
 - One to one performance
Development Stage:
 - Academic Research
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

An immersive one-on-one performance, Bury The Wren uses Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, mixed with ‘Carbon’ Reality, to exhume Annie Donnelly’s voice from the grave of history. 

Screen shot of participants in a Zoom meeting session, some with tMoRPH branded backgrounds, some with video disabled.

Toasterlab

Presented Jun 13-19, 2020 online at FoLDA 2020

Content Types:
 - AR video on mobile device
 - Chat room
 - Computer generated imagery
 - email
 - Google Drive folders and docs
 - Mozilla Hubs room
 - VR app
 - Zoom meeting
Technologies:
 - Discord
 - email
 - Google Drive
 - Mozilla Hubs
 - Unity (game engine)
 - VR headset
 - Vuphoria
 - YouTube
 - Zoom
Audience Experience:
 - Online Hackathon
 - Virtual Conference
Development Stage:
 - Conference Presentation
 - Invited Audience

Summary of Project:

Gathering of invited participants to explore solutions to developing technology based art for consumption in low-bandwidth environments.

CGI John Bull head appears on a projections screen behind actors playing other characters in Oh, What a Lovely War!

Directed by Autumn Smith at Hart House Theatre, original script by Joan Littlewood and The Theatre Workshop

Presented Feb 28 - Mar 7, 2020 at Hart House Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Content Types:
 - Computer generated imagery
 - Motion capture animation (mo-cap)
 - Projected video
Technologies:
 - Character Creator by Reallusion
 - iClone
 - Live Capture on iPhone
 - WatchOut
Audience Experience:
 - Fixed seating
 - Proscenium stage
Development Stage:
 - Public Performance

Summary of Project:

Traditional theatrical presentation of a licensed script with a motion capture animation as a key character.

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