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Active Space: Interactive Videodance / Lisa Naugle and John Crawford, with Frédéric Bevilacqua
May 12, 2004 - May 28, 2004
Opening reception: May 12, 2004, 8-9 p.m.
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Interactive Videodance, a Beall-sponsored research project in the Active Space environment, makes its premiere this year in a performance and installation sequence in the Beall Center. During the performances, "expert users" (dancers and choreographers) will demonstrate the artistic potential of the system. In the installation component, "novice users" (visitors) will be able to "play" the space, improvising and exploring new ways to interact with others through computer technology.
The Active Space Residency at the Beall Center will feature an exciting new area of digital arts exploration: interactive interfaces that create new forms of communication between people and computers, freeing us from the bonds of mouse and keyboard. The Active Space environment combines the human body with video sensing systems, motion capture animation, software development, and interactive video and sound design to generate visual imagery and sound.
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Artist Bios
Lisa Naugle, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Dance in the Dance Department of the School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. She is the recipient of the Cecil and Ida Green Honors Professor's Award, 2000. She holds a Ph.D and MFA in dance from New York University. Lisa was a member of the Nancy Hauser Dance Company and has performed and choreographed in London, Amsterdam, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary and Canada, as well as throughout the USA. Her papers have been published in Dance Research Journal, Performance Art Journal, Journal for Distance Education and in numerous conference proceedings. She is active member of Congress on Research in Dance and serves on the Board of Directors for the International Dance and Technology organization.
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John Crawford is a digital media artist, interactive performance director and software designer. He teaches videodance, motion capture animation and digital arts at University of California, Irvine. Since 1992, his digital media work has been performed and exhibited across North America and in Europe, and he has taught extensively in performance and technology in New York, Seattle and Vancouver. In 1997 he founded the digital media software company electricFX. He teaches and consults on user experience and interface design, and his software credits include projects for Microsoft, Adobe and many other companies.
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As a musician, pianist and composer, Frédéric Bevilacqua has extensively performed in Europe. He has studied improvisation and composition at the Berklee College of Music in Boston (1992-1993). Along with his artistic practice, Frédéric is an accomplished scientific researcher. He holds a master's degree in physics (1991) and a Ph.D. in biomedical optics (1998) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. As of October 2003, Frédéric Bevilacqua has been researching motion analysis and technology development for performance arts at IRCAM (Institute of Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music), Paris.
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