Hi, The SCANZ symposium consists of presenters from the south Pacific as well as those based globally. We called for both papers and artist presentations, and below is an artist presentation. US based Heather Raikes submitted the abstract below which included the following sentence:
The work is inspired by a synthesis of string theory, special relativity, Australian Aboriginal dream painting, Pacific Northwest Native American mythology, futurist performance, and innovations in immersive digital media. Here is the full abstract: [START] Corpus Corvus is an experimental augmented reality performance work that utilizes an integrated physical/media choreographic vocabulary, stereoscopic 3D projection, motion capture animation, electroacoustic sound composition, and spatialized ambisonic sound. The work is inspired by a synthesis of string theory, special relativity, Australian Aboriginal dream painting, Pacific Northwest Native American mythology, futurist performance, and innovations in immersive digital media. The title Corpus Corvus refers to the body of the raven. Loosely based on the myth of the raven as creator/thief who steals the sun and moon, the stereoscopic-ambisonic performance space consists of somatic architectures both extracted from and inhabited by the physical body. The cumulative instantiation of performative embodiment spans a dynamic spectrum from the animalic to the immaterial. Through this work, I am exploring hybridzed spaces of technology and myth. The epicenter of the piece is the body of the raven, Corpus Corvus, an animal-human-virtual-mythic body. The Corpus Corvus is a Dreaming: a body that is landscape, environment; imbued with a complex tapestry of forces and patterns both human and Other. Formally, I am focusing on the relationship between movement of the physical body, animation in a digital stereoscopic 3-dimensional image field, and movement of sound in an ambisonic (spatialized) sound sphere. The piece progresses through ten segments: formation, throat, wing, eye, talon, belly, heart, spine, brain, dissolution. Each segment articulates a media architecture extracted from one aspect of the Corpus Corvus. These somatic media architectures are densely integrated 3-dimensional kinesthetic-audio-visual compositions. Relationships between flesh bodies, virtual bodies, mythic bodies, and fabrics of hyperreality emerge within the performance technology architecture. My primary intent is to create an augmented reality theatrical experience that awakens and resonates in the mythic dimensions encoded in the body and mind of the observer. Moreover, I will achieve this intent through a new media/performance language that recalibrates our perceptual organs into a symbiotic synthesis of physical and virtual form. It is my hope that this experience will be sensorially vivid, cathartic and transformative; and will provoke questions regarding the limits of the body, the relationship between body and environment, the nature of perceived reality, the function and relevance of myth, and technologically-facilitated transformations of consciousness. Corpus Corvus will premiere in late 2009. For SCANZ 2009 Raranga Tangata Symposium: Interconnections, I propose to give a 30-minute artist presentation of the work in progress. [END] Heather Raikes is a media/performance artist presently pursuing a PhD at DXARTS, the University of Washington¹s Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Her work has been presented throughout the world, and includes performances, installations, videodances, hypertext, visual art and interactive media design. The SCANZ residency takes place from January 25th to February 9th 2009; the symposium is on February 7th and 8th. The exhibitions open on February 7th 2009. Apologies for cross posting. +=+ Ian M Clothier and Trudy Lane Intercreate Research Centre intercreate.org Faculty of Arts, Commerce and Technology Western Institute of Technology at Taranaki www.witt.ac.nz New Plymouth, New Zealand South Pacific Ocean P= +64 6 757 3100 x8895 F= +64 6 757 3232 E= [EMAIL PROTECTED] This communication - including any attachments - may contain legally privileged information, and is confidential to the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient you should delete the communication and contact the sender immediately. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not read, copy, disseminate, distribute or otherwise use or disclose any part of this communication, or any information on matters or persons to which it refers. WITT reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications sent through its network. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
