“Over the course of this residency I propose an exploration into accessible(ish) technologies and considerations for making engaging and live mediated performance. The week will center around three main topics: the capturing process, the audience and performer experiences, and “liveness”.

With the capturing process, we will look at different techniques (motion capture, volumetric capturing, and live film manipulation) that can capture or translate a live performance into a screen based work. In accepting the screen as final output, we can play to its strengths while mitigating/accepting its weaknesses. We’ll make use of real-time rendering software to read the motion data as input, translate/contextualize and manipulate it, and then output as projection in the space and through Twitch to the wider world.

In looking at the audience and performer experiences, we can explore features and design elements that allow for more interaction, give more feedback, and affect performance quality when live streaming. We will look to use tools that allow the audience to have direct impact on the work as it’s going on. We also plan to have the visual transformations projected in the space, so that the performer can have an active dialogue with the process in the moment its getting generated. Asking the question: how does the performance get affected when it exists in relationship to seeing the body and its movements transformed in real-time?

“Liveness” will act as an overall theme for discourse around the qualities that make “live” important to a mediated work, and allow a live stream to become more than just a technical feat. ”