Joan of Arc: a Constellation of Voices: a performance work in an immersive environment

a performance work in an immersive environment

Original Score by Carlton Bacon
Conceived and Developed by Laura Cuetara
Art Direction by Bryan Leister
Light Design by Daniel Neafus
Featuring Dan Hiester, Petra Ulrych, and Dylan Hiester
Set Design and Animation by UCD students in Digital Design
Performed at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Published on November 19th, 2009 in Teaching Activities, collaboration, discourse, special projects • 2 Comments »

Digital Body – Kinetic Sculptures : a kinetic sculpture experiment

This fall students in interactive design will be collaborating with sculpture students on a kinetic sculpture project about the Digital Body. I am very interested in the topic of how we are existing today, whether our online state is significantly different from our off-line. (more…)

Published on October 8th, 2009 in Teaching Activities, collaboration, discourse, interactive design, special projects and tagged with , , , • No Comments »

rupture : a full dome format film

Director Statement

For this piece I wanted to explore full dome projection as a topic and as a medium. The format is usually presented in a planetarium space and as such the experience is a fully immersive experience, which is quite different than standard film. With normal film, the viewer feels as if they are “watching” the action and story unfold in front of them. With a medium such as this the audience is actually experiencing the movie as a participant. The contrast between the “flat” medium of film and the immersive quality of the dome is what this piece is really about.

Immersive environments like this share more in common with gaming and role-playing than a traditional film. This first project for me was very enlightening and I believe this format provides a very unique way of engaging an audience. I look forward to exploring real-time dome installations and experiences in the future.
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Published on March 30th, 2009 in collaboration, documentation, motion, special projects and tagged with , , , , , • No Comments »

Indistinct Boundaries : a dance collaboration

Concept

This piece was a collaborative project developed by Jane Franklin and myself for a performance at The Woolly Mammoth Theater’s experimental space in Washington DC. For this project, we decided to explore the topic of in-between spaces and we wanted to try to blur the distinction between the performance and the projected image. I was interested in using chance and randomness as part of my process and developed original music compositions and animation for the 22 minute performance. One of the sequences was developed by Rassamee Ruangsri, a talented artist and animator in Denver and she chose to work with ameoba-like forms that appear to communicate and interact with each other. All of the animations were projected over the dancers bodies as they performed, creating another dimension of movement through their shadows.
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Published on January 2nd, 2009 in collaboration, documentation, interactive and tagged with , , • 3 Comments »

Curator’s Incubator : co-curator for an exhibition titled: anti-matter: recontextualizing the material, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore MD

The six artists included in anti-matter: recontextualizing the material all use materials in an individualistic way that emphasizes process, instability and familiarity. The incorporation of high and low materials by artists represents a shift in attitudes towards the conventional that is culturally significant and personal at the same time. The work of Suzanna Fields, Helen Frederick, Alberto Gaitán, Morgan Kennedy, Susan Noyes and Jennie Thwing are representative of how artists are searching for new interpretations and meanings from common materials. Through recombinant technology, whether digitally based or not, these artists reflect a yearning for familiar ground in a changing landscape.

Essay for the catalogue, co-authored by Susan Serafin and Bryan Leister

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Published on September 30th, 2007 in Juried Honors and Awards, collaboration, documentation, special projects and tagged with , , , , • No Comments »

Temporal Interference: an interactive dance collaboration


Temporal Interference is a collaboration with the Jane Franklin Dance that explores the concept of space and the interference created through motion. Three dancers interact with each other and one of the earliest forms of electronic instruments – a Theremin. The Theremin is used not for it’s sound, but for it’s ability to detect proximity caused when a person disrupts a radio signal. This disruption is measured and controls live video and electro-acoustic sound generated on a laptop. The entire piece is a 22 minute performance created in 5 sections. Original synthetic sound and video by Bryan Leister and additional compositions from musician Gina Biver.
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Published on June 11th, 2007 in collaboration, documentation, interactive and tagged with , , • 1 Comment »