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The RSC’s cutting-edge production of The Tempest pushes real-time motion capture and projection mapping to the limit.
Hear Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development at the RSC, reflect on how projects like this are challenging and changing performance.
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Thank you to Sidd, Pheona and the tech crew at Barbican for unyielding support.
Here follows a quick rundown of the jam-packed evening at Barbican, but first…
Image: © Ruth Gibson 2015
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Artful Spark #04 – Mixed Reality
Tuesday 27th September, 6:30pm
The Fountain Room, Barbican (ground floor)
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With Magic Leap waiting in the wings and Cardboard, Rift and Vive fighting for top spot, emerging products like Tilt Brush are calling out for artists to bring them to life and immersive, full-body experiences are using hidden technology to offer a playful filter on the familiar.
Many thanks to Joseph Turp for a top job.
Despite the Barbican’s charming warren of tunnels, mezzanines and sneaky entrances, everyone made it to our new home for a feast of the senses and sensors…
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Our aim with any theme – sensors, this time around – is not to obsess over the tech, but use it as a lightning rod to pull interesting projects together and generate debate around the collision of artistic, commercial and technical approaches. There follows a quick summary of the night.
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From biometrics to proximity, pollution, pressure and gesture, the machines are awake and listening like never before! Come and explore the opportunities for storytelling, audience engagement and social innovation with leaders in the field.
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It’s a ticketed event and the last one sold out, so get yours on the Eventbrite page
Our speakers will demonstrate technologies – from how to turn them on to their capabilities for creative content – and share the practical, inspirational details behind their brilliant ideas.
The theme for Artful Spark #02 is immersive sound.
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Tony Churnside
Tony is a Creative Technology Director and digital innovator with a history of successful, high-impact experiences. He is an author of international technical publications and recently worked on Björk’s retrospective at MoMA, NYC.
www.churnsi.de
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In the next instalment of Artful Spark we’ll hear from some cutting edge practitioners celebrating the virtues of sound in all its forms: interactive, immersive and intoxicating.
Save the date: Thursday 14th January 2016