High Projects

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.

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.

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. 

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