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The project is realized in the scope of a residency at the ZKM_Institute
for Visual Media, Karlsruhe, funded by the New Media Arts Fund of
the Australia Council for the Arts. It was initiated through the
Victorian Commissions funded by the Victorian Community Support
Fund of the Victorian Government [AUS].
Margie Medlin [AUS] : concept and realization
Rebecca Hilton [AUS] : choreography and dance
Stevie Wishart [AUS/B] : sound design and composition
Holger Deuter [DNA - Digital Nature Arts/ D] : design and realization
of the virtual character
Benjamin Speth [USA] : director of photography
Gerald Thompson [Micronite Film Productions Port Melbourne/ AUS]
: motion control camera-operator/ -engineer in Germany
Scott Inglis [Micronite Film Productions APV - Asia-Pacific-Video
lab, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia/ AUS, Malaysia : motion control camera-operator
in Malaysia Micronite Film Productions APV - Asia-Pacific-Video
lab, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia [Aus / Malaysia Holger Deuter, Martin
Winkler [DNA Digital Nature Arts/ D] : motion capture with Polhelmus
StarTrak/ animation with Softimage
Martin Fox [AUS] : editor
The primary intention of the work is to form a new
relationship between film and dance. The choreography investigates
the interplay between the camera and the dance using the combined
capacity of dance and film to convey the qualities and feeling of
the movement to the viewer.
Featuring a duet between a live dancer and a virtual dancer this
project explores the complex relationship between the real and the
virtual. The technical process involved data for the motion control
camera being generated by the dancer's movement. It was recorded
in real time using a motion capture system. A virtual camera was
then placed on the virtual dancer and it is from this 3D camera
path that the movement of the dancer is converted to run a motion
control camera; creating a crossing between human and virtual.
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