Development of the performance is a continuation from a performance "Intimate Detachments", a collaborated interactive multimedia Butoh performance conceived for a experimental sound performance module last year. In this performance, the butoh performance manipulates the video/sound art playback.


http://www.marlabendini.yolasite.com/intimate-detachments.php

Size 10 fists

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Hardware used:

1 x iSight
1 x ceiling camera
1 x Mixer with speakers
2 x projectors
2 x high-powered fan

Software used:

MaxMSP
Screen-recording via Quicktime

Set-up process:

Linking up the computers with the webcam


Setting up sound system and fans


Setting up webcam system



The initial idea was to have 4 visualisations in different combinations.
However, I felt the 2 projections that are much smaller were not working out for me.



Visualisation 2





Also shows the lighting set-up using existing projectors ...
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Channel that detects black moving pixels:


Layered the moving particle channel over the live feed:

It was a nice visual but I felt it could be better.
Perhaps it gave a lightness to the image, but I thought the layers were a little detached.

It finally dawned on me the day before the presentation, that I could simply invert the black-and-white alpha channel and allow the moving particles to be black like my hair instead! The answer was so obvious I was focusing so much on coding I fail to see ...
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Electricity made us angels is an exploration into new media performance with the intention to incorporate technology into my existing performance practice in terms of design, process and consumption which cannot be realised otherwise; a virtual performance that potentially deviates from its live input.

In an age of Facebook, iPhone self-portraits and Instagram, I manipulate self-portraiture/performance to explore multiple identities and fluidity in perspective, to bridge the present to what...

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