Hello to everyone, Anyone wanting more along the lines of edance / virtual performance with a real time interactive element may want to check this out...come and play online in the virtual spaces created by Company In Space. Details below, and please pass on to anyone you feel may be interested. Cheers, Company In Space Melbourne International Festival of the Arts 2001 (Oct 11th Nov 3rd) in collaboration with Company In Space presents Architecture of Biography / The Light Room: Live Virtual Online. ------- Architecture of Biography / The Light Room is an evolving performance by Company In Space in collaboration with leading Australian artists from image, sound, theatre, movements, spatial design and new media. This is a multimedia performance / installation inspired by architectural practise in relation to the body in virtual and physical space extended through new media. Best described as a new media movement opera, Architecture of Biography / The Light Room is scheduled for final realisation by 2002. This is the first online / interactive performance event in the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, and it provides Company In Space with the opportunity to advance the remote interactive online and virtual aspects of the project. Several architectural spaces from the real world have been transfored into evolving online and interactive VR worlds where you can engage with a virtual character, efecting changes in their world. Over the festivalšs duration we will be continually changing and adding to the virtual worlds. Your typed questions and answers will scroll as subtitles across the screen. Interactions may differ between the virtual worlds, but your play will also affect elements within the installation space. What you see on your computer monitor will be projected in real time onto Building 14, RMIT, opposite the performance and installation space at 449 Swanston Street, City of Melbourne, Australia. ------- Join us online from our website: www.companyinspace.com You will need Quicktime Player version 4 or greater to view the video stream. You will also need a java and javascript enabled browser. Log on to the Light Room and follow the instructions. ------- Schedule: 24 hours online Wed Sat Oct 17th to Nov 3rd Projection starts: 8:30pm (EST) - onto RMIT building 14, opposite 449 Swanston St, Melbourne Performances at: 9pm and 10pm (EST) ------- Allies: Melbourne International Festival of the Arts Arts Development Fund of Arts Victoria City of Melbourne The New Media Fund of the Australia Council --------- Credits: Direction Hellen Sky Virtual Worlds Online John McCormick Collaborator Margie Medlin Spatial Design Simon Barley Sound Design David Chesworth Animation Marshall White Computer Programming Vivek Aiyer, Nilath Jayamaha Live Performance Hellen Sky, Margaret Cameron -- COMPANY IN SPACE Co-directors: Hellen Sky and John McCormick PO Box 1495 St Kilda, Vic, 3182, Australia. Phone/Fax: + 61 3 9534 6676 Email: cis@companyinspace.com Web: www.companyinspace.com
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