Arduino.
Processing/.js.
Interactive.
Screen-based.
Physical Interface.
Data Visualization.
Collaboration."Tell Me I Shouldn't, I'll Tell You I Would." an Urbano Artists' Project [2012].
I worked with dancer/ choreographers DeAnna Pellecchia and Ingrid Schatz, composer Shaw Pong Liu, and 10 teens at the Urbano Project to produce a collaborative performance and digital media piece responding to historic and contemporary acts of civil disobedience. Video above documents the project's first public performance at the ICA. My video projections behind the dancers are sound- and motion-triggered by live events on stage, detected by a ceiling-mounted camera. Read about this project in our Harvard Educational Review article: Speak Out. Act Up. Move Forward. Disobedience-Based Arts Edcuation
Motion-tracking experiments. [2012]
Using the OpenCV library for Processing, I created a series of visual experiments as part of the research process for Tell Me I Shouldn't, I'll Tell You I Would. In considering video projections to augment the teens' dance performance, my goal was to create imagery on screen that was both directly responsive to the action on stage, and also not literally representative of the dancers' movements. Early prototypes explored color and form, as well as motion in time and space.
Motion-tracking experiments. [2012]
I sought inspiration from analog experience, observing colors found in nature, and basing visual experiments on scraps of poetic graffiti found by chance in the subway. Ultimately, my goal was to create video that added an interesting metaphorical as well as visual layer to the piece, without distracting from the dancers' live presence on stage.
