remote possibilities
a live web performance created by slowdanger, Robert Zacharias and Kevin Deland
What happens when the theaters are all empty? When the ghost light is off? When the audience cannot be in the seats? Where does the spirit of the dance, theater, and performance go when it cannot exist with the audience? Online…?
Through the guidance of your digital narrator, the mask, you will be taken through stages of this interactive experience to conjure a dormant spirit.
Through your anonymous interaction and engagement within this platform we question:
Who and how do we perform ourselves through these digital interfaces?
How do we acknowledge the failures of technology to supplement the ancient forms of communal gathering and the ephemerality of theatrical experience?
THIS IS
remote possibilities
Participants will use their webcams to interact with visual modules, unlocking a new experience one module at a time. Eventually, all portals will be passed through and audiences will enter a live-streamed performance by slowdanger.
Through collaboration with Robert Zacharias and Kevin DeLand, these interactive modules will allow audiences to use their own motion to reveal aspects of the experience. These include triggering sound effects or manipulating a digital mask.
This experience will use webcams to track participants' faces to use images and icons on the screen that correspond with their facial movement. Audience members will use facial mapping as well to relate to others in real time.
This facial tracking and mapping through the webcam is designed to render or represent oneself as an abstract digital being.
slowdanger (direction/performance/sound) is a project based multi-disciplinary performance entity based out of Pittsburgh PA creating works at the intersection of movement, sound, and technology. slowdanger aims to bring audiences closer to their own bodies through performance, immersive experiences and open-level workshops, cultivating kinesthetic empathy through creating community in transformational embodied experiences. Co-founding artistic directors, anna thompson and taylor knight use movement, found material, integrative technology, electronic instrumentation, vocalization, physiological centering, and ontological examination to produce their performance work since 2013.
visit slowdangerslowdanger.com to learn more
Creative Technologists
Robert Zacharias rides bikes and teaches creative electronics in Pittsburgh. He's interested in using technologies old and new to bring people together in community. Visit rzach.me to learn more.
Kevin Deland or Doctor Strange Loop is a creative coder interested in developing new digital canvases through which others can express themselves. Visit thedoctor.isonthe.computer to learn more.
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