Simultaneous Virtual Performance

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• Simultaneous Virtual Performance
• Seungyon-Seny Lee

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The World is not a desktop

• Mark Weiser
• Perspectives article for ACM Interactions (1993)
  
• A good tool is an invisible tool. By invisible, I
  mean
• that the tool does not intrude on your
  consciousness
• you focus on the task, not the tool. Eyeglasses
  are a good tool
• you look at the world, not the eyeglasses. The
  blind man
• tapping the cane feels the street, not the cane.
  Of course, tools
• are not invisible in themselves, but as part of
  a context of use.
• But good enhance
• Unfortunately, our common metaphors for
  computer interaction lead us away from the
  and towards making the
  the center of attention..
• We focus on our intention, not the technology

the enormous boundary of arts.
invisibility.
artistic contents,
invisible tool,
technologies
tools
technology
tool
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KEYWORDS
Interactivity
Real-Time
Virtual Environment
Network Environment
Collaboration
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Examples Based on the Keywords

• Palindrome Dance Performance Company (GER)
• Recent Experiments in Networked Performances (US,
  JP-KO)
• Virtual Performance (CN-GSCT)
• Propose a Simultaneous Virtual Performance
  (KO-GSCT)

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Interactive Performance I
Palindrome Dance Company Electrode Technology
97-02 EyeCon Motion Capture System Jenseits
der Schatten Beyond the Shadows 2006
Multimedia opera in one act Emily
Fernandez Innosense 2006 EyeCon Motion Sensing
System
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Networked Performance I
Dialtones A Telesymphony
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Networked Performance II
PLOrk
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Networked Performance III
SoundWire
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Networked Performance JAPAN

• Bend
• 18002300, 2007 May 27 at Aoi Heya
• "bend" is a project started in 2005 by 4
  universities in Tokyo
• Zokei University, Musashino Art University, Tama
  Art University, and Kogei University
• live Internet collaboration between Korea and
  Japan.
• Using the internet, Skype (Public Available
  Technology)
• Korea
• ChonAhn Won Kon Yi (Dankook University)
• Baruch Gottlib (Yonsei University)
• Daejoen Seungyon-Seny Lee (KAIST)Japan
• Tokyo Christophe Charles, Keisuke Oki,
  Akihiro Kubota, and 20 more people from the
  universities above

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Fantasy China

• The Contractors A Conceptual Art Band
• This is a band and also not a band
• Using Only Commercially Available Technology
• Infers to parasite media on existing info
  structure infrastructures in the society
• Performance in Art Fair

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Digital Performance _at_ GSCT

• Multiple Locations
• The same live Performance in different Places
• Role of Audience
• The online users co-produce the part of
  performance
• contribute to the whole work
• Actor Real actor vs Virtual actor vs Avatar
• Interactivity Stage vs Actor vs Audience

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Diagram
Performance Theatre in Seoul
Remote Location in Tokyo
Online Community
Stage-audience interaction
Stage-audience interaction
stage
stage
Audience
Audience
Real Actor
Real Actor
Avatar
Actor-Actor interaction
Actor-Actor interaction
staff
screen
screen
Project
Virtual Actors
Virtual Actors
Stage Sound
Stage Sound
tool
User
User
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Digital Performance _at_ GSCT

• The same and the different S. S. Lee (2005)
• Puri GSCT, KAIST (2006)

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Thank you