The Resonance Project: Exploring what Here and Presence means using tele-immersive technology

December 8, 2006: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Location: Hearst Memorial Mining Building, Gordon and Betty Moore Lobby, UC Berkeley

The Resonance Project presents
The Reception

December 8, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.

Immediately following the CITRIS Holiday Gala in the lobby of Hearst Memorial Mining Building, UC Berkeley

The Resonance Project Dance Group performed for a very large crowd in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building at UC Berkeley. The performance was a blend of live, modern dance with live tele-immersed dancers from University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Using a large network of cameras and computers the dancers were able to span the geographic distance and mingle in cyberspace. The computers merged three-dimensional video images of the dancers onto a single projection, which was broadcast alongside live dancers.

The Resonance Project is a team of choreographers, dancers, computer engineers, and visual and sound artists who are investigating concepts of presence/remote presence and corporeal and code interactivity within live and media based performance. Unique to the project is the use of a "performance as research" model, within which scientists and artists collaborate to explore a re-visioning of cyber culture and corporeal presence.

The participants in the Resonance Project include the tele-immersion lab at the UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the tele-immersion lab within the University of Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department, the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and the Dance Department and Intermedia Program at Mills College. This event is part of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC).

This event is supported by a grant from University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) and the UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies”

The development of the technology was partially sponsored by the National Science Foundation and support from CITRIS founding Corporate member.

The Directors of the project are:

Lisa Wymore (UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies)
Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society)
Katherine Mezur (Millls College Dance Department and Intermedia Program),
Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).

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